CPU Usage

This application shows the current CPU usage in a floating rectangular meter, or in your Dock icon, or both. This information is useful for determining how hard your computer is being worked. Your computer may behave slowly or run hot when the processor is being worked hard.

The text is completely transparent, and the opacity of the meter's background is directly tied to the CPU usage (for example, the backdrop of the meter in the screenshot is 63% opaque). Also, if you have more than one processor, the meter will have multiple cells, and in each one, the CPU number will be shown below the percentage.

What is new in this release:

• Snapping windows
• Use the opacity slider in the Color Panel instead of having a separate one (I don't know why I did it that way)
• Sparkle software-update mechanism (using r150 of Sparkle SVN trunk, from before its move to a Bazaar repository)
• More and better animations

Fixed in version 0.5:

• Drawing really is multi-threaded now, meaning that CPU Usage's own load should now be better distributed across multiple cores
• Fixed a concurrency problem that was causing a rare crash (a little less rare once a day or so after I fixed the threading)
• Much faster: CPU Usage's own usage is down from ~2.5% to ~0.6% of one core on a Mac Pro

Requirements:

• A Mac with one or more processors