GKrellM

GNU Krell Monitors (GKrellM) is a monitoring panel which I have found as an extraordinary system monitoring tool and specially suitable for using with low power Hardware. With a single process, gkrellm manages multiple stacked monitors. It has client/server based monitoring capabilities, the remote system should have gkrellmd daemon running and that system can be monitored from a client machine with gkrellm. GKrellM has a number of features and its monitoring power has been extended with a number of plugins. Below is a screen shot of GKrellM I use in my system.

	Here is the GKrellM I use. It displays Kernel-Version. GKrellKam is a plugin that can watch a number of image files, and display them sized to fit in panels. GKrellMItime displays the Internet Time. CPU load monitor, CPU frequency monitor. Process monitor. Hard disk read/write transfer rate. PPP monitor. RAM used/free/total monitor. Swap used/free/total monitor. /dev/disk1 and /dev/disk2 used/free/total monitor. Floppy mount/umount and used/free/total monitor. CD mount/umount and used/free/total monitor. Upload/Download monitor. Email checker. Reminder service. Volume control. Xmms control. Screen lock. Screen shot.

Default LED and krell monitor refresh rate gives considerable load on the CPU. So the refresh value should be set to a lower limit. Below is the value I use.

Clicking on left or right frame slides of GKrellM folds it to gain screen space.

Right clicking on any particular monitor opens the configuration window of that monitor or right clicking at the top opens the main configuration window.

GKrellmConfig