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MenuMeters - 0.6

Menu for cpu, disk, memory, network resource monitoring

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Selected Version:	0.6
Release Date:	2003-02-03
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 0.6):	692
Downloads (all versions):	343,326

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Product Description:

MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably obscured by document windows on a PowerBook's small screen. Those monitors which used the menubar mostly used the NSStatusItem API, which has the annoying tendency to totally reorder my menubar on every login.
The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). This means they can be reordered using command-drag and remember their positions in the menubar across logins and restarts.
MenuMeters is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

What's new in this version:

[FEATURE] By popular demand, the Net meter now allows you to hide the activity arrows.
[FEATURE] Menubar status displays now update even when their associated menu is down.
[FEATURE] Status related menu items for the CPU and Memory meters are now updated even when the menu is down (uptime, for example, keeps ticking). Also lowered the default memory display time to 10 seconds (from 15) to make this "live" update more obvious. Note that leaving the menu down and updating will increase the amount of CPU time used by SystemUIServer. The Net and Disk menus cannot be made to dynamically update because they do not have a fixed number of items. The MacOS menu manager can't handle dynamically resizing menus while they are displayed (not really their fault, this is a very weird thing to do, and is against Apple's usual guidelines for menu behavior).
[FEATURE] Added per-interface traffic totals to the Net config menu for interfaces where those values are known. These values are the cumulative totals maintained by the MacOS X networking layer and cannot be manually reset (though a reboot will reset them).
[FEATURE] Enabled hiding of labels in the Memory meter status display ("U:", "F:") and the Net meter throughput display ("Tx:", "Rx:"). This narrows the menu slightly for those who need those extra pixels.
[FEATURE] Added a (very narrow) "thermometer" style CPU graph which can be used alone or in conjunction with the other CPU displays.
[FEATURE] Got rid of the "Apply", "Revert", etc. buttons in the pref pane. Pane now updates the meters live.
[FEATURE] Net meter now allows users to set a lower bound of 1K/sec for throughput display.
[BUG] Corrected totally bogus throughput calculation in the net meter affecting all update intervals except 1 second. Had the math backwards, how embarrassing. Thanks to Henryk Richter for the patch. Unless someone tells me different I'm going to assume this is why some folks believed that the display was in bits per second, not bytes per second (it has always been bytes per second, it was just wrong).
[BUG] CPU meter now correctly shows load of "nice"-ed processes such as the Seti@Home daemon. More bad math on my part. Thanks to Tom Varga for the report.
[BUG] Net meter now correctly detects the speed of a serial PPP interface and reports it both in the Net Meter menu config description (when connected) and uses it for the scaling of the Net meter arrows and graph.
[BUG] For PPP connections worked around an issue where sysctl did not return received bytes for the ppp interface (always reported 0 bytes received). Corrected by talking directly to pppconfd for status information.
[BUG] Menubar status displays for Net Meter (graph, arrows, and throughput) are now calculated on the basis of throughput on the primary network interface only. This was a deliberate limitation of 0.5, but has now been removed.
[BUG] Net meter config menu should now catch PPP serial connect/disconnect and update configuration info appropriately.
[BUG] Resized Net meter throughput to be as small as possible while still being wide enough to hold four digit ("200.1KB/s" for example) strings.
[BUG] Fixed problems with stale disk names in the Disk meter's volume list. This was most noticeable when mounting/unmounting CDs, all CDs would have the name of the first CD mounted regardless of which CD was in the drive at the time. Bug looks to be caused by NSFileManager problems in SystemUIServer, workaround was to switch to Carbon volume info calls.
[BUG] Fixed title of the color arrow imageset in the Disk meter to include a space ("Color Arrows" instead of "ColorArrows").
[LOCALE] French localization added, thanks to Matt Anton.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

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Back working in SL - Version: 1.4b4, 11/16/2009 12:31PM PST

Adam Lloyd

Oh thank goodness this is back working! I thought since it wasn't updated previously for such a long time it would not be updated, but here we are! After 10.6 broke it, it is now working perfectly - I'm only interested in the Network display!

Thank you!

No joy in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on new 2.53 GHz Mac Mini... - Version: 1.4b3, 11/5/2009 02:47PM PST

MacHound

This is a must-have utility! I've grown very fond of MenuMeters over the years. I would gladly pay a reasonable shareware fee for software of this high caliber.

I had no problem with MenuMeters 1.3 on my father's Core2Duo MacBook Pro under OS 10.6.1, but version 1.4b3 won't launch on my brand new 2.53 GHz Mac Mini and 10.6.1. Version 1.3 was working perfectly on my PowerBook before I migrated the account to the new Mini; however following migration 1.3 gave a message that it's not compatible with Intel CPUs. I'ill gladly share log files if the developer wants those.

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No joy in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on new 2.53 GHz Mac Mini...

SL problem? - Version: 1.4b3, 10/31/2009 02:51PM PST

morbius

The network module does not display the upload/download info and the full descriptor of the primary interface. I have no idea about the other modules- the network is the only one I use.