With Mac, I have istat that shows computer info (memory/cpu/network …) in real time.
Does Ubuntu have a similar application?
Ubuntu – Istat menu 3 of Mac equivalent
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You could give a try to Back in Time. It is in repository.
In documentation he explains why he do it.
Why did I write the application ? When I read about Apple’s TimeMachine I thought it’s nice tool to have. I searched for equivalent applications for Linux and I find TimeValut and FlyBack.
Since February I'm making backups with it, but never had tried a full or partial restore.
It uses rsync and not the mechanism like inotify used by Time Machine. So it is running every x time and not each time the file is wrote.
The closest I could find is memtop, a Python script available here on Google Code.
Screenshot:
How to use memtop
- It's a Python script, so simply do a
sudo mv memtop-1.0.0.py /usr/bin/memtop.pyand achmod +x /path/to/memtop.pyto make it executable - Default update period is 15 min; use switch
-p 1to make it 1 minute, etc. (can't go lower than that unless you modify the source) - Use
-l N, where N is the number of processes you want to show, depending on the size of your terminal. - Use
-mto show "more" information, i.e. the Swap/Page stats at the bottom of the screenshot.
The htop disguised as memtop option
If you don't use htop otherwise, it's pretty easy to set it up with the F2-setup option to look like memtop:
- htop config is stored in
~/.config/htop/htoprc, so just deletehtoprcto restore normal htop.
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Best Answer
You can get what you want with gkrellm
-- it works out of the box, but you will probably want to tinker a bit to get the look and the info you're after.
You can install the basic application from the Software Center or via the command line, with
apt-get install gkrellm, but there are numerous plugins and themes available.You can see the easily installed plugins with
apt-cache search gkrellm. Here's an extract:And here's a themes directory (the last time I installed it, this is the site I used to find a theme I liked): muhri.net/gkrellm
Another option is conky
It is also installable from the Software center or via
apt-get. It is extremely configurable, and if you search, you'll find many screenshots of customized conky installations. (Here's one from conky pitstop .)