exerceo |
12-28-2022 06:41 PM |
improvements in GNOME system monitor
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Originally Posted by exerceo
(Post 6396946)
What is also disappointing about the GNOME system monitor, the most popular and often pre-installed task manager equivalent on Linux, is that the line graphs are too coarse, and the rounding (or "smoothening") of the lines in the graphs is more annoying than helpful. I prefer it to show the exact usage at that point in time, which is more important than looking pretty.
The line graphs hold 60 seconds of usage history by default, but it can be extended to a few minutes by reducing the update speed. However, then the update speed is too low. When ending a memory-consuming process such as the web browser, the graph only visibly descends after several seconds of delay.
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It looks like this has been improved! Now, the "resource" tab in the prefereces allows deactivating "draw charts as smooth graphs", and even has a slider which can increase "chart value points", which I increased to the maximum of 600.
While I don't appreciate that the GNOME team deteriorated their terminal emulator, I am thankful for these improvements to the system monitor.
I also increased the update interval to one second so the graph holds over an hour of data, which is far more useful than the four minutes of the Windows task manager.
The RAM usage does usually not change much over the span of four minutes, but it does over 100 minutes, so a graph spanning hundred minutes is far more useful.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/uEeLx1F ( mirror)
As I just found out, the forum has a hard limit of 12 MB of attachments per user. That will be exhausted in no time, so I had to upload to Imgur. Thank you for understanding.
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