High CPU usage applet

Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-devel at pileofstuff.org
Fri May 8 12:47:10 UTC 2009


I think this is a really good idea.  Making it an applet would let you 
list "suspects" (programs that have a high CPU load, or use a lot of 
memory, etc.), then send a STOP signal to processes guilty beyond a 
reasonable doubt, before asking the user what to do.

I once played around with a command-line program that looked for 
applications that were page-faulting like it was going out of style, by 
repeatedly reading /proc/[0-9]*/stat.  If you're interested in pursuing 
this idea yourself, I'd be happy to send along the (C++) code I wrote 
back then.

	- Andrew




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