Terminally Incoherent

I finally got around to rolling up the installer for the newest version of PerfMonG. Release 0.2.5 has bunch of small updates that improve the usability. I added small tweaks to the interface that now allow you to control the threshold beyond which the CPU counter changes color to blue or red. Mike made sure that the tool works well in dual screen configuration, and doesn’t disappear off the screen when you disconnect one of the monitors.

I merged the release_0.2.5_candidate branch into the HEAD of the trunk, and also created a new tag for this version. At this moment all 3 locations contain the same code, but the trunk will probably start changing soon. If you want the bleeding edge code, check out from the trunk. Otherwise, get it from the 0.2.5 tag.

We still have a long way to go, and much tweaking and refactoring to do before I’m truly happy with it. But, it is slowly starting to shape up into a nifty little tool.

If you are to lazy to click any links, and you have no clue what I’m talking about, let me explain. PerfMonG is my small open source project - a minimalistic performance monitor for windows written in .NET. I mentioned it once before. If you are a windows user, or a .NET programmer definitely check it out, and contribute if you can.

I was rummaging through the contents of my hard drive and I found PerfMonG - a minimalistic performance monitor that I wrote sometime back in 2004. At the time I wanted something like GKrellM on my Windows box, so I created one myself. I admit, GKrellM is better, more configurable, supports skins and etc. I didn’t really need all of that. What I wanted was an app which would display my CPU usage, free RAM, swap usage, free hard drive space, number of running processes, uptime, and free HD space.

It’s nothing special, but it works. It has a small memory footprint, it runs in the background most of the time and doesn’t get in your way. Of course if you are really hard core about displaying useful info on your desktop, Samurize is probably a better application. But if you just want something quick and simple, check out PerfMonG.

I created a Google Code page for it, uploaded all the source to subversion there. You can also download a rar file with all the code from the downloads section.

PerfMonG is a Windows only application written in C#. Any bug reports, patches and contributions would be greatly appreciated. I haven’t really touched this code since 2004 - with an exception for a quick cleanup before it got uploaded. But if someone out there likes it, or finds it useful, I’ll get back and continue developing it.