I've used Stats for years and loved it -- for CPU, GPU, memory, and network upload/download speeds.
It's fantastic for catching when a bunch of processes haven't been killed and are stuck at 100%. For figuring out if my code is actually running on the GPU or not. For seeing what my network transfer rates are, when a download or transfer gets stuck, and which process is suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes without telling me?
It gives me the security I have a top-level overview of what my computer's up to. Can't imagine my menubar without it.
> It's fantastic for catching when a bunch of processes haven't been killed and are stuck at 100%.
Exactly! I've been using iStat Menus for years and I find it invaluable. I've been able to identify system-wide problems a few times already just by glancing at the graphs and going "huh, that should not be happening right now". And it's not just stuck processes, but also misbehaving processes.
Yeah, I've always been a fan of having something like this going. I have found bugs in my software just from having the continuous graph somewhere. "Why am I using 100% of the CPU for no reason right now? Oh, after 10 minutes without a request it enters an infinite loop here..."
Back in the old days the fans going to 100% was a good bug finder. But computers can be so quiet now, you have to use your eyes ;)
It's fantastic for catching when a bunch of processes haven't been killed and are stuck at 100%. For figuring out if my code is actually running on the GPU or not. For seeing what my network transfer rates are, when a download or transfer gets stuck, and which process is suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes without telling me?
It gives me the security I have a top-level overview of what my computer's up to. Can't imagine my menubar without it.