"Make sense" keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor?

[(=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando]

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On Friday 08 February 2008 17:53:46 A. Walton wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 12:32 PM, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
> > First of all: why do you need this shortcut for 'gnome-system-monitor'?
> > I guess most people don't understand why this is so important, but I'm
> > sure there are "normal" shortcuts that can be used to launch it if there
> > is really a need for it...
> 
> I could see a use, as this is Ubuntu Studio and not Ubuntu; music
> producers often need to check CPU usage of their software, and avoid
> pegging the CPU to avoid nasty pops, cracks and hisses caused by
> hardware hiccups. While some utilities have this built in, some don't,
> so it's good to keep an eye on CPU usage (and arguably, memory usage
> as well).
> -A. Walton

Every time I launch gnome-system-monitor my disk spins like crazy, and I can even see a CPU spike on the graph.
So using it to check high load/memory will most probably worsen things, wouldn't it?

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