System Monitor – view and manage system resources

System Monitor is a process viewer and system monitor with an attractive, easy-to-use interface.

System Monitor can help you find out what applications are using the processor or the memory of your computer, can manage the running applications, force stop processes not responding, and change the state or priority of existing processes.

The resource graphs feature shows you a quick overview of what is going on with your computer displaying recent network, memory and processor usage.

This is free and open source software.

Website: apps.gnome.org/SystemMonitor
Support:
Developer: Robert Roth
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

System Monitor is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

Related Software

Read our verdict in the software roundup.

Explore our carefully curated directory of recommended free and open source software, covering every major software category. The directory forms part of our extensive collection of articles for Linux enthusiasts. It includes hundreds of detailed reviews, together with free and open source alternatives to proprietary software from companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. LinuxLinks also covers interesting projects worth exploring, Linux-compatible hardware, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Know a useful free and open source Linux application that we haven’t covered? Tell us about it using our submission form.