Download CPU History
CPU History 1.1 is a 96 kB download.
What is CPU History?
CPU History is an application that graphs your current CPU usage history in the Dock icon, and optionally in a floating window. You can customize colors, update frequency, and bar thickness.
Why use CPU History?
If you want a graph of CPU usage in the Dock and nothing more, Activity Monitor is doing much more work than necessary. CPU History is small to download, uses very little CPU time, and has a more customizable Dock graph than Activity Monitor.
CPU History 1.1
Changes from CPU History 1.0:
- Added full support for multicore machines. (thanks @dsandler for a patch to get things started)
- The graph no longer erases all data when altering preferences (fixed a drawing bug)
- Ability to change divider size between core graphs (from 0–16 pixels)
- Changed default graph colors to be identical to 10.5’s Activity Monitor: solid red, green, blue, and black
- Floater window now remembers where you placed it between launches (thanks @boredzo for the suggestion)
- Overhauled the preferences window layout (here’s a short blog post with screenshots)
Known Bugs:
- The About and Preferences windows do not respond to command-w to close.
Source for CPU History 1.1 is available two ways:
- I’ve gzipped my git repo at the 1.1 release: this is a 1.47 MB download
- I’ve placed CPU History on github and repo.or.cz.
To send feedback on CPU History, please contact me with “cpuhistory” as the username, @ this domain. Putting “CPU History” in the subject would be fantastic: it’ll keep your email out of my spam folder.