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Hey, whats the best CPU and GPU monitoring app for linux. For temperature, cpu and gpu utilization.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Is conky still a thing? I used it for that when I used an exclusively passive cooled PC a few years ago. You were able to easily create bar graphs in a config file and even include output of commands.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I currently use a combo of btop and radeontop for this. For GPU monitoring I've also used nvtop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nvtop is really solid. I like that it can show hardware encode/decode percentages too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

and NVTop shows on which GPU the process is situated, which is invaluable if you have multiple GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

On KDE there's System Monitor, which you can customize to show graphs for CPU usage and temp, among other things, and GPU usage and temp too.

For in-game monitoring there's Mangohud, also very customizable on what you can show in the overlay

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Resources is a nice aio flatpak for system monitoring.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use "GtkStressTesting" for tracking system's health, although it's actually a Benchmarking tool.

https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst

[–] grinceur 6 points 1 year ago

htop and nvtop on split terminal window ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Isn’t there Green With Envy to monitor NVIDIA stuff on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you're using an amd gpu, corectrl gives you a ton of info and controls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Msi afterburner on windows

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Nah it's the Linux instance, guy is probably joking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i use KDE system monitor, if it's for that e requirements it work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like ksysguard, comes with basic system monitoring screens and is very configurable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use the xfce CPU graph plugin for the CPU... don't use anything for GPU, I don't game and all my rigs run on onboard GPUs. There is also a temp plugin for xfce, I use that one as well, can't remember the name now though... it requires libsensors to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

bpytop is very nice and functional. Maximize the window and it almost hypnotic to watch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mission Control looks pretty nice, it tries to resemble the Windows Task Manager really closely so it's great if you are switching from Windows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This looks great! They even figured out Intel GPU and per-process GPU support.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago