Sysmontask
Version: 1.0 Web: https://github.com/ KrispyCamel4u/SysMonTask
Powered by Python and GTK3 under the bonnet,
Sysmontask recreates the experience of using Windows Task Manager. It’s not an exact copy, but the Performance section is certainly similar. The left part of the window shows rectangular boxes for CPU, Memory, Disk and Network consumption. Click one to see a detailed graph in the main window area.
Sysmontask enables you to keep an eye on several subsystems at once thanks to its well-thought out GUI layout. We recently featured a similar application – Monitor – in LXF283. Both tools do a similar job, but even though Monitor looks trendy and practical, Sysmontask is even better. Moreover, the latter has another amazing feature that’s exclusive to Linux: the graphical disk pressure monitor. Select a disk section in Sysmontask (for example, sda) and watch the lower Disk Transfer Rate graph while copying a large file or running any other disk-intensive job. The disk monitoring page has a definitive set of monitoring widget, and so it can easily replace most other desktop applets or extensions that you might use. The Processes section is pretty much self-explanatory, again with the Windows-style ‘Killer’ button sitting below the processes list.
The Sysmontask story would not be complete without covering the tool’s specific highlights, such as filtering and log plotting. The first one enables the narrowing down the scope of displayed processes based on userdefined filters. Go to View>Filter to create as many filters as you need. A process performance can be recorded and saved as a CSV file (use the Record and Pause buttons below the list). Then go to Tools>Log Plot and select a CSV file to instruct Sysmontask to draw beautiful and valuable plots (the feature is powered by python3-matplotlib). A quite unexpected yet awesome feature in a system monitoring program!