CPU,Memory & Disk Usage Meter

Posted in System by poedba 783 days ago

This Geeklet show the current CPU, Memory and Disk usage on a simple meter that represents the current percentage. This geeklet was last updated on 07/01/2011. Fixed issues to more accurately reflect CPU, Memory and Disk Usage.

screenshot

To change the colors, fine the lines that look like this...

echo "\33[1;34m*\33[0m\c"

Change 34 to any of the following for different colors.

30 - Black; 31 - Red; 32 - Green; 33 - Yellow; 34 - Blue; 35 - Purple; 36 - Light Blue; 37 - White; 39 - Grey;

Also, you can change the * on tihs line to show another character.

Geeklet files to download

CPUMemDskUsage.glet

Comments

hobs 749 days ago

This has an error because it does assignment to self myDisk=`expr 100-$myDisk` which bash hates. Check your console logs for "myDisk command not found" and you will see what I mean.

If you assign that value in a new variable and reference it later and unset it later, works fine.

thelowbrow 741 days ago

I really like this one, but was wondering what I have to modify to change the colored asterisk from purple to black?

Thanks

poedba 687 days ago

LowBrow,

I updated the attached geeklet for accuracy also, I've included intructions for changing the color. Let me know if everything works out.

mrbeast87 727 days ago

This is the most amazing geeklet I've ever seen!

The problem is the CPU usage is not accurate. You're using "top -l 1" to get the CPU usage, but as you can read in the manual: Note that the first sample displayed will have an invalid %CPU displayed for each process, as it is calculated using the delta between samples.

Wich means you just get the random sample. Using "top -l 2", considering only the second output would do the job. But I don't know how to do it... Can anybody solve this?Cheers

poedba 687 days ago

MrBeast87,

I noticed that the CPU looked weird too. To say that it is not accurate isn't a completely accurate statement. However, the measure being displayed wasn't what I wanted and from the sounds of it, you either. Anyway I changed the calculation to show the expected results. Let me know if this looks better.

onemanzu 23 days ago

I was constantly having issues with the way the cpu was calculated as well, no way my computer was using 70% cpu constantly.

here was my solution.

cpu1=$(top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/{i++} i==2{print; exit;}' | awk '{print $7}' | head -c2)

myCPU=$(echo $((100 - $cpu1)))

black 622 days ago

Running this on Lion I get the following error message:

(standard_in) 1: parse error

Memory Usage \c

./test.sh: line 31: [: 5: unary operator expected

...

.expr: syntax error

./test.sh: line 54: myDisk: command not found

Disk Usage \c

./test.sh: line 57: [: 5: unary operator expected

The only colored stars are in the CPU Usage row, Memory Usage and Disk usage are not working.

Any ideas on why?

Fleek 605 days ago

My guess is the paths are different. A lot of paths were changed from Snow Leopard to Lion. Unfortunately I don't know enough about the code to change it.

Hopefully the original developer will come back and give us a fix.

poedba 595 days ago

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I've uploaded a new version of this. I'm not sure why this was trying to call test.sh but I believe I've removed all references.

mulcahey 555 days ago

Thanks for posting the asterisk color-change info. Is there any way to change it to orange?

Thanks.

hellomelon 406 days ago

No there is no way, at least not the way this geeklet is coded, since the geeklet uses the 'echo' command which only supports the colors mentioned

ajimix 375 days ago

If memory isn't working you should add this line after line 39.

So line 40 will be like this...

myUsedPer=`echo $myUsedPer | sed 's/,/./g'`

The problem is that some systems use "," as decimal separator and that line changes it to "."

Monophonic 178 days ago

I like these, but how can I use a separate font? Anytime I use a font other than what the geeklet came with, the spacing gets offset. Is there anyway to distance the text from the bar and make everything even?

YourFloorIsLava 135 days ago

I have the same question. It seems Courier (and other typewriter fonts, I'd imagine) also works for the spacing, but I haven't found how to add spaces to compensate for other font types.

Edit: Found it! You can change the spacing before the symbols by adding spaces or tabs before "\c" on the lines:

echo "CPU Usage \c"

echo "Memory Usage \c"

echo "Disk Usage \c"

And you can change the space between the symbols and the percentages the same way by modifying the lines:

echo " $myCPU%\c"

echo " $myUsedPer%\c"

echo " $myDisk%\c"

Hope this helps!

slim 36 days ago

Hi poedba, I realise this is pretty old by now, but I have just discovered it and I was wondering how I would go about changing the size of the Asterisks within the line of code, kind of like how you described changing the font colours, because that was really easy to follow. I have tried trial and error but haven't stumbled across the right value yet.

Hope you can reply! Thanks.