pulse

real-time cpu / ram / disk monitor in the terminal.

pulse              live dashboard, refreshes every second
pulse --once       print once and exit
pulse -n 5         refresh every 5 seconds

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output

  pulse  19:00:04  uptime 1h 44m

  cpu     [█████████████████████████████░]   99.2%
  ram     [█████████████████████████░░░░░]   85.9%  6.0 GB / 7.0 GB

  disk
  C:      [███████████████████████████░░░]   91.9%  437.0 GB / 476.0 GB

  ctrl+c to exit

bars turn yellow above 60%, red above 85%.

build

dotnet build -c Release

requires System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter nuget (auto-restored). .NET 8+, windows only.

testing

ran against a live machine. cpu/ram/disk all confirmed accurate — 99.2% cpu, 6.0/7.0 GB ram, 437/476 GB disk. values matched Task Manager.

not tested: multi-disk systems, network drives, very low memory.

license

MIT