If you are new to Ubuntu or you recently upgraded your installation to 11.xx or higher you will notice that the system monitors you are familiar with are not compatible with new desktop. No worries though, there are a number of monitors available going by the name of “Indicators”, these tools will embed into your unity tool bar much the same way that your previous monitors had.
General System Monitor:
You can install this indicator by using the following commands or by searching for “multiload” from the Ubuntu Software Center
sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload
or from the ppa repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:indicator-multiload/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload
This indicator is a port of the original System Monitor GNOME Panel applet (gnome-system-monitor applet).
and provides monitoring for the following
Network, memory and cpu usage.
Johnny August 16th, 2013
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