How much swap?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Ian Petersen wrote:

>>  You may be surprised, but for monitoring of your desktop I recommend
>>  the system monitor applet for gnome-panel, it shows you how much
>>  memory and swap is in use in real time, and also shows you how much of
>>  that memory usage is from cache, buffers, applications, and shared
>>  memory.  You can see clearly how much is "real" memory usage and how
>>  much is just disk caching.  The applet also can show CPU, HDD, and
>>  network usage, and I definitely can't live without it, hehe..
>
> I used to rely on the applet you're referring to, but I find gkrellm
> vastly superior.  See
> http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html for
> some screen shots and further details.
>
> For those who have never heard of gkrellm and don't want to click the
> link, it's basically a pluggable stack of system monitors.  It's
> client-server, and you can actually monitor a remote machine with it.
> Right now, I can see the current date and time, the utilization of
> each core on my CPU as a percentage and a graph, the number of
> processes, the number of logged-in users (according to utmp), the fork
> rate (in processes/sec, I think), the CPU temp, hdd activity, eth0
> activity, loopback activity, memory usage (I think it ignores caches
> and buffers), swap usage, disk space on each mounted partition, number
> of emails waiting on my server (unread and total), and the uptime.  On
> my laptop, I can also see battery life remaining, and I think it shows
> me when I'm running on AC, too.

    I cannot see any of that info when I run gkrellm. It is all far to
    small to be readable. Is there any way of increasing the size? I
    couldn't find it.

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