Feature request: show top X processes for network/memory usages

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Feature request: show top X processes for network/memory usages #42

Open rayr007 opened 7 years ago

rayr007 commented 7 years ago

Would it be easy to add process information to the menus?

network show top X processes using network (strip output from nettop command)
cpu show top X processes using CPU (strip output from top command)
memory show top X processes using memory (top command output again)
disk show top X processes actively reading/writing to disk?

yujitach commented 7 years ago

Yes it won't be difficult but I don't have the time, unfortunately. I hope someone would contribute the code so that I can merge.

Two requests to those who would implement the features:

I like the current minimal interface, so please do not make the detailed info the default. Please also add the toggle switch to enable/disable it in the pref pane.
I just merged a nice patch reducing the energy use significantly. Please do not poll the info too excessively to degrade the energy efficiency.

yujitach commented 6 years ago

It's implemented in v1.9.7, thanks to @HofiOne .

rayr007 commented 6 years ago

From what I can see, only second point of this was implemented. Network, memory and disk meters do not have top X processes feature, only CPU.

yujitach commented 6 years ago

Ah, I see. Reopened.

yujitach commented 3 years ago

The same issue is posted recently, so I'm updating this.

rozhl commented 3 years ago

My workflow suddenly uses up all the available memory. Closing and reopening the affected app helps in my case. So knowing which app is currently eating the RAM helps. I second this feature.

I see a comment above regarding excessive polling - wouldn’t be enough to just pull the data the moment you click on the menubar icon? I mean I don’t care about the info unless I need it...