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If you try to run these apps on Linux mint (and probably other Linux too) without having the app installed, it gives you the command to run to install it.

All of these apps update in real time every 2 seconds (if you run the command as given).

You can have multiple Terminal (CLI) windows open at the same time; eg all 4 of these apps running at once.

NVIDIA SMI

(nvidia gpu temp, usage, etc)

type: watch nvidia-smi



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SENSORS

(cpu core temps etc)

type: watch sensors



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NMON M

(cpu cores frequency)

type: nmon

[press M]



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NMON

(everything else)

type: nmon

[press h for menu]

And this is a full guide to NMON and related apps that can be used/installed with it.

http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Artic ... Admin-Tool

nmon (Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux & AIX) has been developed by IBM employee Nigel Griffiths.

Great - this is something that I was looking for! I will check them out. I hadn’t found good monitors on Linux and that kept pushing me back to Windows ...

Do you just type those commands into the terminal?

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:16 pm Great - this is something that I was looking for! I will check them out. I hadn’t found good monitors on Linux and that kept pushing me back to Windows

That is the exact reason why I have cursed Linux for soooo long. No CoreTemp or GPU-Z. Now with these apps you have everything (and more) that those 2 apps offered.

Damien Healy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:18 pm Do you just type those commands into the terminal?

yeah you just type the command into in the terminal to run the app.

eg:

watch nvidia-smi

will run the nvidia-smi in watch mode so it refreshes every 2 seconds (without reloading the page).

Thanks a lot. I’ll check these out!

A couple more useful commands:

>> inxi -Fxz

This gives you full system/hardware info, including current temps of CPU, cores, and GPU, as well as fan speeds etc.

However I noticed that some of my stats are not being reported; I just read that you have to run the following on Sensors to get it to detect everything. I just followed the onscreen instructions and clicked Y(es) for everything (safe) except the last item which is mentioned as potentially unsafe.

>> sudo sensors-detect

It all worked okay, but is still not showing fan speeds; perhaps it needs a reboot.

And lastly something else I remembered that might be useful, if when closing (the Terminal/CLI window) for some of these apps it states "There is still a process running", then just type the following to stop the app running before you shut the window.

>> CTRL + C

eg hold control button and press C

This nmon toolset is great. Super useful and I hadn't found a good monitoring toolset, despite digging around quite a lot.

Sounds like it comes already installed in Linux Mint? It wasn't installed in my distro, but it can be easily installed via the terminal via:
It can then be run via terminal simply by typing 'nmon'

I had to install it also.

HTOP....

-Realtime CPU/Core usage
-Realtime Memory/SWAP file useage
-Current running processes
-Various other bits of info such as system uptime
-Customisable colour schemes
-Ability to kill processes

(Sudo apt-get install htop)

regards

Andrew

htop, another useful command from galacticminor

I also just came across a new command to easily see RAM usage/totals

free -m

for some reason nmon wasnt showing the correct amount of free memory, but free -m did.

I’ve noticed that too - nmon showing much much less free RAM than other monitors.