Comments on: A Word about System Monitors http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:39:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Roben http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-37 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:01:19 +0000 http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-37 <p>In my experience pageouts cause the most serious slowdowns, but they are also usually over quickly. In a perfect world you'd have enough RAM that pageouts never happen. I suspect that I have more pageouts issues than most users because right now, I have low RAM (768 MB) compared to the amount of software I am typically running.</p> In my experience pageouts cause the most serious slowdowns, but they are also usually over quickly. In a perfect world you’d have enough RAM that pageouts never happen. I suspect that I have more pageouts issues than most users because right now, I have low RAM (768 MB) compared to the amount of software I am typically running.

]]> by: SWGS http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-27 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:44:02 +0000 http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-27 <p>I use this setup as well but don't include RAM information, doesn't seem very beneficial to me, but maybe that's just my ignorance of pageouts. I prefer to set the colors for all the MenuMeters items to black so they match Apple's black and white theme for the menubar.</p> I use this setup as well but don’t include RAM information, doesn’t seem very beneficial to me, but maybe that’s just my ignorance of pageouts. I prefer to set the colors for all the MenuMeters items to black so they match Apple’s black and white theme for the menubar.

]]> by: Roben http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-26 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:40:31 +0000 http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-26 <p>Interesting mkb, as I was writing this post I actually started thinking about how a system monitor could be developed that uses colors and shapes instead of numbers in order to make it easier to read (i.e. whether you are downloading 192KB/s or 150KB/s usually isn't important, what is important is that you are downloading <em>fast</em>). From the screenshots, it looks like iPulse takes that approach.</p> Interesting mkb, as I was writing this post I actually started thinking about how a system monitor could be developed that uses colors and shapes instead of numbers in order to make it easier to read (i.e. whether you are downloading 192KB/s or 150KB/s usually isn’t important, what is important is that you are downloading fast). From the screenshots, it looks like iPulse takes that approach.

]]> by: mkb http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-25 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:21:45 +0000 http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/#comment-25 <p>I'm a big fan of iPulse, which has basically the same information, but in a much more compact form. It took me a while to learn to read iPulse, but now that I have, I can't live without it.</p> <p>http://iconfactory.com/software/ipulse</p> I’m a big fan of iPulse, which has basically the same information, but in a much more compact form. It took me a while to learn to read iPulse, but now that I have, I can’t live without it.

http://iconfactory.com/software/ipulse

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