Monitoring your Linux gaming PC is pretty easy, there's some good applications out there to keep an eye on CPU use and more but what about some stress testing to see how it holds up? GtkStressTesting seems nice.
The developer, Roberto Leinardi, who also made GKraken (control the cooling (and soon also the lighting) of a NZXT Kraken X) and GreenWithEnvy (controlling NVIDIA fans and overclocking on Linux) emailed in about GtkStressTesting. Originally called GnomeStressTest, they recently changed the name to GtkStressTesting along with a new release.
When sending it in, Leinardi said:
The main purpose of this app is to have in a single screen all the information about CPU, RAM and MoBo including monitoring of usage and sensors.
In addition to that it's also possible to run some stress tests to see how the system will react to heavy load. There is also a small benchmark feature but nothing too serious.
Seems like a pretty useful multi-tool, the type of application you find easily for Windows but not something you often find for Linux so it might fill a nice little niche for some of our readers.
They're also looking for feedback. You can try it out yourself right now, see how on the GitLab page where there's multiple ways to install.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
heidi.wenger Jan 27, 2020
Quoting: AsciiWolfIt is also available on Flathub. :-)
Very good! It would be important to also have a snap package for it. More and more new ppl are looking towards Linux. For those opposing these: you can choose not to use flatpak or snaps. No one is taking away your freedom of buildin from the source or adding PPA's :)
SirLootALot Jan 27, 2020
TheRiddick Jan 27, 2020
Last edited by TheRiddick on 27 January 2020 at 7:09 pm UTC
Quoting: TheRiddicklooks good to me, be nice if it had nvidia and amd gpu temp/data monitoring also. And for some reason it can't detect my memory modules.
If you click the "Read All" button in the top left of the window, it will prompt for you password then read out your memory information.
Quoting: TheRiddicklooks good to me, be nice if it had nvidia and amd gpu temp/data monitoring also. And for some reason it can't detect my memory modules.
Hi, I'm the developer of GST. If what ajgp suggested doesn't work, feel free to open an issue on the official issue tracker: https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst/issues
PS: Ahah in fact there was a news about it last year... but it seems I didn't take time to try it out.
Last edited by Cyril on 28 January 2020 at 12:46 am UTC
Quoting: TheRiddicklooks good to me, be nice if it had nvidia and amd gpu temp/data monitoring also. And for some reason it can't detect my memory modules.
the creator of this apps said on OMGUbuntu comment, it must be run under "sudo" to get full memory information.
Quoting: adibuyonoHi adibuyono, I fear I was not clear enough on my other comment: please, never start GST with sudo, it is not needed and could even create issues. What I wanted to say is that superuser permissions are needed to read the RAM information. GST will ask for these permission automatically when you press the "Read all" button on the top left corner. GST will never know your password because I'm simply using pkexec to run dmidecode as root.Quoting: TheRiddicklooks good to me, be nice if it had nvidia and amd gpu temp/data monitoring also. And for some reason it can't detect my memory modules.
the creator of this apps said on OMGUbuntu comment, it must be run under "sudo" to get full memory information.
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