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This is an unofficial fork of MenuMeters intended to add some features that hopefully will be integrated into the main MenuMeters distribution, at which time this fork will be terminated. The features added are all CPU meters features: 1. The user can choose to display CPU thermometers horizontally instead of vertically. This results in thinner, but longer, thermometers, which allows for greater detail. The CPU meters menu region is much more efficiently used, with almost no extra decoration outside of the thermometer bars themselves, and a minimum of whitespace. I wanted to use every available bit of space to get as much useful information as I could. Horizontal bars allow this in ways that vertical bars cannot. 2. The user can choose to 'sort CPUs by usage', which shows the highest CPU usage percent of any core sorted first, then the second highest next, etc. The idea here is that when a process or set of processes is running, the scheduler may move it around between CPUs, and without sorting the CPUs by usage, the result is thermometers whose values sort of jump around and are harder to get a read on. With sorted thermometers, a single process running at 100% CPU always shows up as the top bar (unless the CPU timeslices the processor between more than once CPU, which it occasionally does). This makes the display much easier to read and the overall load much easier to track. 3. If the display mode is thermometers (vertical or horizontal), and CPU sorting by usage is in effect, then the user can furthermore choose to average the least utilized processors into a single thermometer. This is very similar to the already-existing option to average all CPUs into a single thermometer, but this new option only averages the least utilized half of the processors into a single thermometer, leaving the most utilized half of the CPUs as individual bars. The idea here is that a hyperthreading-aware operating system (like Mac OS X) will always prefer to schedule threads across cores, only scheduling two threads on the same hyperthreading core via the two separate logical processors, if all other physical cores are already busy. The lowest utilized cores should, under the vast majority of circumstances, represent the additional logical cores associated with physical cores already in use by the operating system. A user may prefer to see all of those averaged into a single bar since they don't represent the same degree of thread execution as that of the 'real' physical cores. This further de-clutters the CPU usage display. On my 4-core, 8-thread CPU, this option allows me to see 5 bars instead of 8, with the corresponding increase in the fidelity of the display of those bars due to the increased amount of room that I then have to display them. Additionally, I have added a makefile to allow the project to be built by GNU make in addition to Xcode (I find working this way easier). This can be accomplished by a command like this: gmake -j9 The resulting installer will be in build/dmgvolroot. Additionally, a complete DMG file containing the installer can be built by: gmake dmg The result will be in build/MenuMeters.dmg.
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