KDE System Guard
KDE System Guard (KSysGuard) is KDE’s task manager and system monitor for Unix-like systems. It can watch both local and remote computers by running a small server (ksysguardd) on the remote machine and connecting to it from the KSysGuard GUI.
It can display simple metrics like CPU and memory usage, or complex data such as tables, shown in various charts and graphs. Users can organize views into worksheets. There is also a top-like list of running processes for detailed monitoring.
KSysGuard is a rewrite of KDE’s old 1.x task manager, KTop. Over time it has been largely superseded by Plasma System Monitor.
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