GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 755553
The ability to merge all of the CPU core statistics into one line graph
Last modified: 2018-05-22 12:16:29 UTC
I think that it would be really good in the gnome-system-monitor for you to be able to select an option which would mean that all of the CPU core statistics (the line graph statistics for each of the CPU cores) would merge into one line graph. This feature is already available in the Windows Task Manager and I think would be a good addition to this one.
'Winows has it' is a weak argument - what in particular do you hope to gain from such an option ?
Well, I would find it particularly useful on systems with many CPU cores so that I can view an overall view of how my computer is doing in terms of CPU rather than having to look at all of graphs and values for all of the CPU cores as that could get a big long especially depending on how many you have. So an overall view of your computer's CPU usage would be useful.
Do you need more than that? Or can we change the status of this bug from "NEEDINFO"?
That's easy to do because everything is just there (we already have the overall cpu stats), but the tricky part for me is the UI and especially the labels / color pickers, because it is built on startup and how to switch it from one mode the other.
*** Bug 767945 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 367862 [details] Screenshot showing why CPU total is required I think without a total, the CPU History is nothing but pretty eye candy. The screenshot shows the effect of stress testing my CPU (stress -c 4). I LOVE looking at the CPU graph with all those pretty colours, and it would be sad to lose them, but the spaghetti of coloured lines tells me nothing about the true load on the CPU because the load is utilizing different cores all the time. The black thicker line shows the true load: about 64%. (I hacked the prog to add the black line and total myself). I don't care what windows has, if our graph is designed to show CPU load then it should do that, rather than displaying 8 rapidly changing numbers that I'm meant to add together in realtime! :) To me, it would be fine for the UI to be set in tweak-UI or somewhere, and we could offer 3 options (for an 8-core): 1) Show 8 lines as we currently show 2) Show total line only 3) Show 8 lines + total line, as per my screenshot example. I don't like the idea of a separate "bar chart" for the total - it is fine to show the current total as a number. Thanks!
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