What is MenuMeters?

MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably obscured by document windows on a laptop's small screen. Those monitors which used the menubar mostly used the NSStatusItem API, which has the annoying tendency to totally reorder my menubar on every login.

The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). This means they can be reordered using command-drag and remember their positions in the menubar across logins and restarts.

Harper, Alex. (2011). MenuMeters Read Me.rtf. Electronic Document.

Download MenuMeters for Mac

Architecture

OSX Universal Binary

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.3

Compatibility notes

Tested and works on OS X 10.6.8

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU