You can change the colors, and the refresh interval.Īfter the above selection, you’ll see 4 graphs in the Ubuntu task bar itself as shown below.įig: Multiple graphs displayed on the Ubuntu task bar Ubuntu System Monitor GUI You can also choose Network, or Swap Space if you like to monitor those.īy default it displays the memory usage in green, cache in light green, process usage in blue, load average in red. Select the following check-boxes under the ‘Monitored Resources’ section. Right mouse click on the Processes graph that is displayed on the task bar panel, and select ‘Preferences’. You also have option to kill the process from the same window by right-clicking on it and selecting the kill option.Īs I mentioned earlier, most of these tools fetch the information from the proc/meminfo file, which can be read directly.Fig: Processes Usage Graph on Ubuntu Task Bar Panel Add Memory Usage, Load Average and Disk Usage Graphs to Ubuntu Task Bar Panel Similar to Windows Task Manager, you can view the memory usage, CPU usage, and other data for each individual process. In the Processes tab, you can see all the processes that are currently running on your Linux operating system. Resource tab gives the graphical view of the usage. The System Monitor has two tabs we’re interested in: the Processes and Resources tabs. Type “ System Monitor” in the start menu’s search bar and press Enter.
You can check the memory, CPU and network usage in real-time in GUI by using System Monitor. You can use -m(mb), -g (gb), -t(total) with free command to understand the value easily – Total amount of swap memory in the system.
Total amount of free and used physical memory.Instead, what you’ll get is an instant snapshot of the free and used memory in that moment. Note : The output of this command is not in real time. This command gives the simple view of the amount of free and used memory.
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