![]() ![]() Although distributed as open-source freeware, a great deal of effort has gone into the creation and maintenance of MenuMeters. MenuMeters is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Interface information is gathered from the SystemConfiguraton framework and thus is MacOS X network location aware (to prevent interfaces from appearing in this menu see the FAQ). ![]() The Net Meter menu shows current interfaces and their status. Scaling can be done on the basis of actual link speed reported by the network interface or peak traffic and can use one of several scaling calculations. Both the arrows and the graph are scaled using a user-selected scaling factor and calculation. The Net Meter can display network throughput as arrows, bytes per second, and/or as a graph.The Memory Meter can optionally display a paging indicator light. The Memory Meter menu shows a breakdown of current memory usage and VM statistics. The Memory Meter can display current memory usage as either a pie chart, thermometer, history graph, or as used/free totals.The Disk Meter menu shows volume space details for local drives (it does not display mounted network volumes for speed reasons). It is hotplug aware, and will show activity on FireWire and USB disks as they are mounted. The Disk Activity Meter displays disk activity to local disks on the system (anything that is a IOKit BlockStorage driver).The menu for the CPU Meter contains several pieces of information I like to have a single click away (uptime, load average, open Process Viewer, open Console). It can also graph user and system load and display the load as a “thermometer”. The CPU Meter can display system load both as a total percentage, or broken out as user and system time.This means they can be reordered using command-drag and remember their positions in the menubar across logins and restarts. The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. ![]()
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