System Monitoring Center
Multi-featured system monitor
*** Announcement (31.10.2023): End of support for System Monitoring Center v2.x.x. The project is ended. System Monitoring Center 12.2020-10.2023. ***
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Features:
- Detailed system performance and usage usage monitoring/managing features:
- Monitoring CPU, RAM, Disk, Network, GPU hardware/usage information
- Monitoring and managing processes and services (systemd)
- Monitoring users, sensors and general system information
- Supports PolicyKit. No need to run the application with "sudo"
- Hardware selection options (selecting CPU cores, disks, network cards, GPUs)
- Plotting performance data of multiple devices at the same time
- Interactive charts for querying performance data on any point
- Option for showing processes as tree or list
- Optimized for low CPU usage
- Customization menus for almost all tabs
- Supports ARM architecture
- Hardware accelerated GUI
- Free and open source
Installation:
- There are several options for using System Monitoring Center:
- Installing from Flatpak (Details)
- Installing from application stores (Pardus Application Center, Pi-Apps Store)
- Installing from repositories of distributions
Installing from PyPI as a Python package.There will be no new packages on PyPI (Details)- Running from source code:
- For SMC v2: in
src/folder, run:python3 ./run_from_source.py - For SMC v1: in
src/folder, run:python3 ./Main.py
- For SMC v2: in
Dependencies:
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--- #### Dependencies There is no need to install these dependencies for installing the application from Flatpak. For other installation types: - For System Monitoring Center v2.x.x: - `dmidecode, gir1.2-adw-1, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-gtk-4.0, gir1.2-pango-1.0, hwdata, iproute2, python3 (>=3.6), python3-cairo, python3-gi, python3-gi-cairo, util-linux (>=2.31)` - For System Monitoring Center v1.x.x: - `dmidecode, hwdata, iproute2, procps (>=3.3), python3 (>=3.6), python3-cairo, python3-gi, python3-gi-cairo, util-linux (>=2.31)` - Following dependencies may be required on some systems: - `libcairo2-dev` (for systems with .deb packages) - `polkit` (for Arch Linux) - Optional dependencies: - `vcgencmd` (for physical RAM size, GPU frequency and video memory information on Raspberry Pi devices) - `x11-xserver-utils` or `xorg-xrandr` (for more accurate screen resolution and refresh rate detection of System Monitoring Center v1.x.x) ---Limitations and Known Issues:
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--- #### Limitations - GPU usage information availability depends on vendor/driver. - GPU load is not tracked if GPU tab is switched off (for lower CPU usage). - Virtual machines may not provide CPU min-max frequencies, sensors and RAM hardware information. - Non-Flatpak versions of the application has higher performance (start speed, CPU, RAM usage). - GTK4 (used for SMC v2) consumes about 2x RAM when compared to GTK3 (used for SMC v1). - Running SMC v1 after SMC v2 resets application settings #### Known Issues - Expander/Collapser arrows do not work sometimes if processes are listes as tree (Processes tab). Issue - Tab customization menus are not closed when clicked outside of the popover menu after using a dropdown menu on the popover menu. - This is a GTK4 bug. These menus can be closed by using `Esc` key. ---Screenshots:
