![]() ![]() Instead, if you have an active Internet connection, the first panelĬurrent weather (from a user-selectable reporting station), and the second The final two panels do not have a thing to do with the perfomance of your Mac, with older Macs having fewer sensors), network traffic, disk usage (notĪmount of space, but the amount of read-write activity), and battery state (available Sinks, fans and other parts with sensors (these vary depending on model of the The other panels show memory usage, various temperatures from the CPUs, heat Is running nice and cool, and there is considerable network traffic and disk Memory is very busy, the various temperature sensors indicate everything ![]() In this instance, both CPUs are very active, XRGbusy - When your Mac is busy – and this one is Graphics, and the last row of text shows Dragon has been up for six days, Another load statistic is obliterated by one of the two performance The CPUs are also running fairly cool, one at 101✯ and the otherĪt 96✯. Running at 10% of load and the other at 9%, and their average load is about Dragon has two CPUs, neither one doing much, one The computer, “dragon” in this case, and next to it is a panel XRG can be displayed vertically (the norm) or horizontally,Īnd for purposes of illustration we’ve displayed it horizontally, and What kind of charts and numbers? Let’s take a look at the first screen Other Mac running Mac OS X) can produce even crisper, more impressive-looking Other location), and the Dow Jones average plus Apple stock price.īut it is now the 21st century, and those “big” UNIX boxes are landfill,Įclipsed in power, utility and ease of use by your iMac. Weather at Baltimore-Washington International Airport (you can pick some The panels, from left to right, are for the CPU,įrom various sensors in the computer, network activity, disk activity, the Weather and stock activity, X Resource Graph indicates this Mac isn’tĭoing much of anything. XRGquiet - With the exception of the last two panels displaying Running in an X-Window window, showing their powerful 8 and 12 MHz workstationsĭoing world-changing things and displaying this awesome power with some crisp, UNIX system administrators loved to have system monitors Such applications first gained popularity in the world of “big” UNIXīoxes in the 1990s. Reports back, using text and graphics, on the performance of your Macintosh. Written by Mike Piatek-Jimenez, XRG is a system monitor. Yes, it actually hasĪ purpose, even a useful purpose, but that is irrelevant: it fairly reeks Instead, we do many thingsĪnd X Resource Graph, better known as XRG, looks cool. Have a need to match orbital velocities, sequence DNA, balance the federalīudget, or render a feature-length animated film. ![]() Let’s face it: there are a great many things we do with our computers Charters Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint Home About Membership Calendar Events Journal Help Community Resources Whimsy Twitter Facebook X Resource Graph: Because It Looks Cool © 2004 Lawrence I. ![]()
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