[Techtalk] Performance Monitoring, Linux

[Andrea Landaker]

> I was wondering what are the best utilities (GUI and otherwise)
> available for Linux for monitoring the performance of hardware (CPU,
> memory, hard drive, etc.)?

Hmm, well, I have KDE's "System Monitor Applet" running all the time - it's 
nice because it runs in KDE's "kicker" toolbar, and it's pretty simple and 
doesn't do logging and things, though.

"top" will give you lots and lots of information quickly, but is text-based, 
not graphical, and doesn't give any history/logging.

"KDE System Guard" (ksysguard) is very flexible, will monitor just about 
everything you want (including on other machines) -- it's pretty powerful

Well, that's all the ones I know of (I use KDE, so they're mostly KDE-based), 
though I'm sure there are lots of others!

-- 
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/