[Sugar-devel] Happy / Sad laptop system load monitor

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 11:28 -0700, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Concky looks great, but I thought we could only embed Python code in the
> frame.

Ah, thanks, I didn't know that.
> 
> If a rewrite in Python is required, then we could as well start from
> Tincho's original work and improve it. While the happy/sad laptop might
> be an over-simplification, opening the palette did reveal real memory
> and cpu usage data:
> 
>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Dextrose_resource_monitoring.png
> 
> The lag observed by Iain in updating the data also bothered me. The
> stats were being updated every 5 seconds because a reviewer was
> concerned about increasing idle power usage. I'd be in favor of
> increasing the update frequency and maybe skip the UI updates when the
> frame is hidden. The same optimization would benefit all the existing
> frame indicators and background updates to the Network view, which take
> a ton of CPU time.
> 
Perhaps I was being over-hard, but of course one is only really
interested in the monitors, when not sure if resources are sufficient!

I have had a go with conky on osbuild - it is not working quite
correctly. (I may have some options contrary in the mix between top
level and transparency.)

However I can share a screen-shot [1] and the ~/.conkyrc [2] I used.

        yum install conky
        conky -c .conkyrc from Terminal Activity

Regards,
Iain

[1] http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-240514-031742.php
[2] http://ur1.ca/hdbh8 
> 
> On 05/23/2014 04:08 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> > +1 to something like conky, which is real information instead of
> > pretending to give the kids information. if you want smiley faces, they
> > should have real data behind them.
> > 
> > regards.
> > 
> > -walter
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Iain Brown Douglas
> > <iain at browndouglas.plus.com <mailto:iain at browndouglas.plus.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 22:34 -0005, Sebastian Silva wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     > I remember Sugar as deployed in Dextrose 1 had a signature happy/sad
> >     > laptop icon and both memory / cpu load indicators.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > I am dogfooding Sugar again on a memory constrained laptop and am in
> >     > need of a memory monitor, and this would be lovely.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Is that code alive? Maybe it was a good idea to have by default.
> >     >
> >     I remember testing that on a low resource machine and the avatar lagged
> >     the events, and was not educational.
> > 
> >     I felt that the ability to embed a couple of elements from conky [1] in
> >     the frame would be superior. I have found conky to be understood by very
> >     young testers.
> > 
> >     Regards,
> >     Iain
> > 
> >     [1] http://conky.sourceforge.net/
> >     >
> >     > Regards,
> >     > Sebastian
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