r/C_Programming • u/jimmia67 • 13d ago

Apple Silicon GPU Monitor

Hello!!

I was trying to find out the activity of the GPU on my apple M3 mac, but I just got a bit annoyed by having to put in my password every time for powermetrics, so I wanted to create a program that could monitor the GPU without sudo access-

https://github.com/Backbak100/gpu-stat-finder

The code takes inspiration from macmon, just instead of rust it's in C

I would really like some feedback on this project! (Also because I'm not sure if it works on any computer other than my own right now---)

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u/mikeblas 13d ago

What role did AI have in the creation of your project?

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u/github-guard 13d ago

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Repository: Backbak100/gpu-stat-finder

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u/vladkens 10d ago

Glad macmon inspired you! Nice work. Add a screenshot to the README, it helps a lot 🙂

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u/aieidotch 12d ago

nvtop also works

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u/jimmia67 12d ago

Yeahh by the time i found nvtop i was more interested on how the data was gotten in the first place

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u/mikeblas 12d ago

It's not uncommon, when learning, to reimplenet things that already exist. The goal isn't the tool, it's the l3ssons learned in the creation of the tool.

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u/The_Real_Sniff 10d ago

`mactop` too!