Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

[David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de>]

Hello,

On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote:
>David Haller wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote:
>>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>>> Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at
>>>> the side of your screen and shows a whole load of things all at
>>>> once. I've been using it for donkeys' years.
>>> That's what I generally use.  I don't see a place for it to show the CPU
>>> frequency tho.  Did I miss it? 
>> Nope. Try your local x11-plugins/gkrellm-gkfreq, see attachment ;)
>
>Oh man.  They added a lot of plugins since I last looked.  I couldn't
>find the one you mentioned but I did find gkrellm-cpupower which seems
>to be it.  Maybe they changed a name recently???

Nah, cpupower seems to be even older that gkfreq, but that is also at
least from 2010 ;) IIRC I found it linked from the gkrellm homepage.

>Thing about that, it takes up way to much room to display. I could
>check it on occasion but I wouldn't want to leave it up there all the
>time. 

You can configure it! But cpupower seems to take at least a
line/CPU-Core. BTW it seems you have to restart gkrellm to have
cpupower update it's config, unlike most other plugins (e.g. gkfreq ;)

>Thanks for the tip tho.  I'm going to check into the other plugins that
>might be nifty to have. 

gkfreq can be configured that it just shows one line (e.g. "Max",
which is how I have it), and which suits me. Oh and with that slower
update-rate in my other follow-up with the patch.

Check both out. You can use both cpupower and gkfreq for testing and
keep whichever you like better ;)

-dnh

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