S-TUI
Stress-test your CPU
While Shashank Sharma isn’t fond of stress-testing the weighing scale, he’s fine with tools like S-TUI, which help him monitor CPU performance.
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Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in Delhi and an avid Arch Linux user. He’s always on the hunt for geeky memorabilia.
O ver the past few years, we’ve introduced a blend of powerful and robust as well as nifty and nimble command-utilities that help you perform a variety of tasks. Everything from everyday text editing, connecting with remote machines, performing backups and other administration tasks can be done from the terminal.
A key matrix for determining the vitality of a Linux distro, or the hardware that it runs on, is system performance. Depending on your purpose, you can choose from a variety of dedicated tools to monitor the different components such as CPU frequency, temperature and memory utilisation. But if you favour the CLI, like us, you’ll rather enjoy working with S-TUI.
With S-TUI, which is an acronym for Stress-Terminal UI, you can simultaneously monitor CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilisation. The utility presents all the information graphically and can even be used to export the data into CSV files. Better still, you can configure S-TUI to automatically launch scripts when the values of any of the components being monitored breaches the defined threshold values. When coupled with stress, another command-line utility, S-TUI can also be used to stress-test your system.