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ceh383 · 03-20-2012, 11:10 PM

Question, I have a 6 core AMD processor and would like to show average CPU use and temp. What is the best way to do that with conky?

trademark91 · 03-20-2012, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ceh383

Question, I have a 6 core AMD processor and would like to show average CPU use and temp. What is the best way to do that with conky?

the average of all 6 cores would be ${cpu cpu}

for the useage of each core individually you would define each one:

${cpu cpu1}
${cpu cpu2}
...

Don't know about the temp, never had much use for it as I'm not an overclocker.

ceh383 · 03-21-2012, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trademark91

the average of all 6 cores would be ${cpu cpu}

for the useage of each core individually you would define each one:

${cpu cpu1}
${cpu cpu2}
...

Don't know about the temp, never had much use for it as I'm not an overclocker.

Thanks, I'll give it a try...

273 · 03-22-2012, 09:12 AM

I'm not sure what the situation is with current AMD CPUs but with my older one there doesn't seem to be a way to access the temperature directly from conky, so I use the following to get CPU and motherboard temperatures.

Code:

${execi 8 sensors | grep "CPU Temperature"}
${execi 8 sensors | grep "MB Temperature"}

It could be better, I know, but it's a start.

ceh383 · 03-22-2012, 10:58 PM

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ckt1g3r · 03-24-2012, 12:55 PM

Slackware-13.37 + openbox + tint2 + wbar + conky
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mpregos · 03-25-2012, 06:05 AM

Hello Everybody.

I want to create a conky with lua rings.I look deeply in the net , in order to figure out how could i draw rings with conky but with no luck.
I have installed conky and lua packages. I run conky configuration with rings but no the rings doesn't show at all.

I found a package that said lua rings, i installed from source .....but again fail to draw the rings in my conky .

Does anybody knows what is missing here?????

Thnaks guys (....and girls)

Keith Hedger · 03-25-2012, 07:14 AM

you need to install conky with lua support, if you have installed it from slackbuilds the slackbuild script needs modifying see the readme

mpregos · 03-25-2012, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith Hedger

you need to install conky with lua support, if you have installed it from slackbuilds the slackbuild script needs modifying see the readme

Keith thank you very very very very very very much .....i appreciate!!!!!!

Problem solved

ceh383 · 03-26-2012, 09:46 PM

Last night I was compiling some slackbuilds and noticed something. Conky showed my CPU usage at 15~20% yet the top CPU tasks only added up to 2~3%
What would cause them to be so different?
Here's my conky script...

Code:

alignment top_right
double_buffer yes
gap_x 25
gap_y 100
update_interval 1.5
background yes
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
#own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_class conky-semi
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
minimum_size 250 5
maximum_width 225 5
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0.5
xftfont micro.pfc L:size=8
temperature_unit fahrenheit

TEXT
${font size=7}${color #ff0000}Info $hr${color }${font }

User: ${alignr}$alignc${exec whoami} @ $nodename
Kernel: ${alignr}$kernel ($machine)
Uptime: ${alignr}$uptime
Time: ${alignr}${time %H:%M:%S}
Date: ${alignr}${time %d.%m.%y}
Filesystem: $alignr${fs_type}

${font size=7}${color #ff0000}CPU Usage $hr${color }${font }

Average% ${alignr}${cpu cpu}%
${cpugraph cpu1 12, 200}
Temprature${alignr}${hwmon temp 1}°F

${font size=7}${color #ff0000}CPU Tasks $hr${color }${font }

${color #F50AD9}${top name 1}${alignr}${top cpu 1}%${color }
${top name 2}${alignr}${top cpu 2}%
${top name 3}${alignr}${top cpu 3}%
${top name 4}${alignr}${top cpu 4}%
${top name 5}${alignr}${top cpu 5}%

${font size=7}${color #ff0000}Ram Usage $hr${color }${font }

RAM ${alignr}$mem/$memmax
${membar 8, 200}

${font size=7}${color #ff0000}RAM Tasks  $hr${color }${font }

${color #F50AD9}${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top_mem mem 1}%${color }
${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top_mem mem 2}%
${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top_mem mem 3}%
${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top_mem mem 4}%
${top_mem name 5}${alignr}${top_mem mem 5}%

${font size=7}${color #ff0000}Network $hr${color }${font }
IP (Lan): $alignr${addr eth0}
IP (Public): $alignr${execi 600 wget http://checkip.dyndns.org/ -q -O - | grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'}
Total Down $alignr${totaldown eth0}
Total Up   $alignr${totalup eth0}

Download ${alignr}${downspeed eth0}
${downspeedgraph eth0 12, 210}

Upload ${alignr}${upspeed eth0}
${upspeedgraph eth0 12, 210}

${font size=7}${color #ff0000}Filesystem $hr${color }${font }

/home ${alignr}${fs_free /home}
${fs_bar 8, 200 /}

/archives ${alignr}${fs_free /archives}
${fs_bar 8, 200 /}

/extras ${alignr}${fs_free /extras}
${fs_bar 8, 200 /}

SCerovec · 03-27-2012, 08:24 AM

ceh383, it seems You have a bit too much awesomeness and it eats up some of the CPU cycles
:^)
Just kidding, it's probably the way both conky and top calculate the CPU load, You might even compare it to gkrellm and wmcpu or some further CPU gauge for X...

Best regards,
Stevan C.

w1k0 · 03-27-2012, 04:39 PM

ceh383,

in my system conky displays 11-15% of CPU usage while the command:

top -b -n 40 | grep '^Cpu' | sort -n

displays 4.1-11.8% of CPU usage (the median usage is 9.5%).

So top reports significantly lower CPU usage than conky. I don't know the reason for such a difference.

ceh383 · 03-27-2012, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by w1k0

ceh383,

in my system conky displays 11-15% of CPU usage while the command:

top -b -n 40 | grep '^Cpu' | sort -n

displays 4.1-11.8% of CPU usage (the median usage is 9.5%).

So top reports significantly lower CPU usage than conky. I don't know the reason for such a difference.

I read somewhere that conky doesn't show processes that run as root under the top CPU processes. I don't know if that is true, but if it is, how would one get those to show up?

w1k0 · 03-28-2012, 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ceh383

I read somewhere that conky doesn't show processes that run as root under the top CPU processes. I don't know if that is true, but if it is, how would one get those to show up?

It doesn't seem true. I run as root the command:

ls -R /

and conky using the following configuration:

Code:

${top cpu 1} ${top name 1}
${top cpu 2} ${top name 2}
${top cpu 3} ${top name 3}
${top cpu 4} ${top name 4}
${top cpu 5} ${top name 5}

showed the ``ls'' process.

ozanbaba · 03-28-2012, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trademark91

the average of all 6 cores would be ${cpu cpu}

for the useage of each core individually you would define each one:

${cpu cpu1}
${cpu cpu2}
...

Don't know about the temp, never had much use for it as I'm not an overclocker.

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