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FreeMeter contains 10 different meter. FreeMeter Professional adds 8 more.
You determine which ones you want to see, the order in which they appear,
and their size.
You can quickly hide the FreeMeter window by double-clicking the title bar. To
unhide it, double-click any FreeMeter system tray icon or use the hotkey
combination you specified (Pro version). While hidden, all the meters continue to
gather data.
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In all bar graph meters, a red bar indicates high utilization; yellow, warning;
green, normal. Each graph can also have a blue moving average line. In FreeMeter
Professional, you can change the red/yellow/green limits and the colors.
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The System Uptime meter displays the amount of time that system has been
running since it was last booted.
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The Drive Space meter shows the status of the disk volumes being monitored.
You choose which columns to display and the order in which they appear.
In this example, the “Backups” volume is red because the free space on that
volume has dropped below the user defined warning level. Drive P:\ is crossed
out because it is currently unavailable. FreeMeter can monitor local drives and
network shares.
You can double click a volume to open an Explorer window on that volume.
You can right click a volume and select “Show Folder Usage” to view
the individual folder usage on the volume.
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The CPU meter shows the percentage of time that all your computer's CPU cores
are busy. This meter can be a bar graph or line graph and can be drawn with or
without the blue moving average line.
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In the Professional version, this meter can graph user and kernel CPU use separately
as shown in this second graph. Kernel CPU time is drawn in the darker color.
In this example, the meter is also drawn in the optional flat, or 2D, style that
is available only in the Professional version.
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This meter graphs your disk performance. It displays the rate at which your
computer is reading from and writing to all of your disks. The number in the upper
right corner is the maximum value at the top of the graph. The graph will
continuously rescale to hold all the recorded data.
There are separate lines for read (red),
write (white), and moving average (blue). The
moving average is of whichever is higher, read or write. In the Professional
version, you have control over all the colors in the graph, including the
background color.
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The network graph meter shows the network traffic on your computer. The number in
the upper right corner is the maximum value at the top of the graph. The graph will
continuously rescale to hold all the recorded data.
In FreeMeter Professional, you can have two network meters running, so you can
have one for the wired connection on your notebook and one for the wireless
connection.
There are separate lines for receive (red),
write (white), and moving average (blue). The
moving average is of whichever is higher, read or write. In the Professional
version, you have control over all the colors in the graph, including the
background color.
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These two, separate meters show your physical memory usage. One shows it as text,
and the other as a graph. The number in the upper right corner of the graph is the
maximum value at the top of the graph.
In the Professional version, you have control over all the colors of the graph,
including the background color.
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These two, separate meters show your virtual memory use in your page file(s). One
shows it as text, and the other as a graph. If the OS increases the size of a page
file to meet memory demands, the increase will be reflected in both of these
meters.
In the Professional version, you have control over all the colors of the graph,
including the background color.
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The Memory Pages/sec graph indicates the rate at which pages are read from or
written to disk to resolve hard page faults. This meter is a primary indicator of
the kinds of faults that cause system-wide delays. If this meter shows a lot of
activity when your computer is being sluggish, you may need more memory.
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This meter graphs the size of the file system cache. This is the total
size of all files currently in the cache. It is not a graph of available
file cache space. All unused memory can potentially be used to cache
files.
The number in the upper right corner of the graph is the maximum value at the top of the graph.
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The Process meter shows a list of running processes. Besides the name of the
process, it includes the process' total CPU time, memory use (its “Working
Set”), and percentage of CPU used since the last update.
Because FreeMeter is still a 32-bit application, it cannot monitor 64-bit
processes.
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The Network Ping meter pings (using UDP) a list of local or remote hosts to
determine which are up and which are down. It displays each host's ping response
time. The longer the time, the slower the network connection to that host.
If a host does not respond within your time limit, it will turn yellow. If it is
not responding at all, it will be read. As with all meters, you can change the
colors that are used.
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