System Utilities - SysStat nano

Description: SysStat nano is our best ever stats widget, and it's free!

View detailed information on CPU, memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, CPU temperature, battery, uptime and the top four processes.

SysStat nano features the lowest CPU usage of any stats widget we've seen (compare it if you don't believe us, I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised!).

Features
All view:
- CPU bar meter
- Memory bar meter
- Primary disk space bar meter
- In and out bandwidth
- CPU temperature

CPU view:
- Detailed CPU bar meter

Memory view:
- Detailed memory bar meter

Disks view:
- Detailed disk space bar meter for 2 drives

Network view:
- IP and total bandwidth stats
- External IP and bandwidth throughput stats

Processes view:
- A list containing the top 4 processes

Uptime view:
- Uptime and load averages

Battery view:
- Battery charge meter and remaining time (for supported systems)

Other features:
- 3 coloured skins (blue, black and red)
- Animated transitions when changing sections
- CPU temp in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit
- A built in update checker, so you'll always have the latest version
- Very efficient code
Author: islayermarc
Version: 1.1
New in v1.1: New features in version 1.1:
- Unversal binary for Intel native support
- Dual and quad CPU meters on the CPU page
- Temperature page
- Updated network page layout
- A new white skin
Uploaded on: January 19th 2006 at 8:34 PM
Rating: (4.8 stars)   [Show Detailed Ratings]
Downloads: 6508 (all versions), 5807 (this version)
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Nice work I love the smaller "nano" size!

Posted by: Powermacguy on Jan 12, 06 (12:33 AM) for version 1.0 (previous version)   View Detailed Rating

the transitions, on my computer at least, take about 3 seconds, which seems way too long. very nice widget and design.

Posted by: jeffl89 on Jan 13, 06 (4:30 AM) for version 1.0 (previous version)   View Detailed Rating

This widget says my DC Power Mac G5 is running at 800,000+ degrees. I'm not sure that's right...

Posted by: notorious on Jan 14, 06 (3:49 AM) for version 1.0 (previous version)  

Its not right smiley
there is an update on the way.should be out in the next 12-24 hours which will fix that

Posted by: islayer on Jan 14, 06 (5:13 AM) for version 1.0 (previous version)  

EXCELLENT! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Great job!

Posted by: SiliconX on Jan 14, 06 (2:24 PM) for version 1.0 (previous version)   View Detailed Rating

This is an excellent widget. It's small, beautiful, has lots of information, and has the lowest CPU usage of any 'stats' or CPU usage widget I've seen. I currently have two on my dashboard, one on the 'All' pane and one on 'Processes.' I love that it is small enough and has low enough resource usage that one can use multiple instances to show just the mix of information one desires.

I've noticed two issues: the temperature display does not seem to update properly (though I have not checked other temperature monitoring programs - the problem may be with my system), and the battery meter says "Invalid system" on my 15" PowerBook (the 1440x960 revision).

Posted by: ajwitte on Jan 15, 06 (7:42 PM) for version 1.0 (previous version)   View Detailed Rating

ajwitte :: We'll be updating the temps and battery sections as quickly as possible to support all systems. Please give version 1.1 a shot, and if that doesn't fix the issue, then 1.2 might (coming out soon).

Posted by: islayermarc (developer) on Jan 19, 06 (8:30 PM) for version 1.0 (previous version)  

... and if that doesn't help, then please email us. support@islayer.net

Posted by: islayermarc (developer) on Jan 19, 06 (8:31 PM) for version 1.0 (previous version)  

Everything works now with version 1.1. Thanks!

Posted by: ajwitte on Jan 21, 06 (9:23 PM) for version 1.1 (current version)  

This is very nicely done. My only suggestion is to change the graph colors to make more sense, perhaps use the color scheme that Activity Monitor does.

E.g., in Memory I don't know why inactive is red and active is green, the reverse would make more sense to me. Also in Memory I think the item should be ordered down instead of across, so wired, active, inactive down the left and Used, Free, Swap down the right, since the six items group naturally in two sets of three. In CPU, I've always seen red used for kernel processes, and its usually shown "below" the user processes (in this case it would be to the left). In Disk, the text is reversed. Used should be first to match the graph and Used should be colored red (used bad, free good, good==green).

Posted by: hurm on Jan 22, 06 (12:38 AM) for version 1.1 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

The white skin looks like an Xbox360.

Posted by: IanTheMacFan on Jan 22, 06 (7:51 PM) for version 1.1 (current version)  

I have lots open!smiley
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3138/statwidgets8lh.png

Posted by: IanTheMacFan on Jan 22, 06 (8:21 PM) for version 1.1 (current version)  

Which item for memory should I be monitoring the most? I dont know the difference between wired, swap, active, inactive, and used. I want to know which one I should monitor the most so that I can get an idea of how much memory im using in my pro apps n stuff.

Posted by: Dotcommer on Jan 22, 06 (8:29 PM) for version 1.1 (current version)  

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