I love htop too, but the great thing about scout_realtime is the couple minutes of context provided the charts.

Sometimes, nothing beats seeing a chart to quickly see what's going on.

I've found MenuMeters really useful (only available on Mac though)

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/index.html

It's always instantly clear when something like iTunes or a Chrome helper starts eating up 105% CPU, and provides quick access to force quitting it. :)

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/sEtkR9p.png

That is true, charts are nice.

I actually mostly use glances [1]. I forgot to mention glances in my comment.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Glances

flexd, Htop or conky? http://conky.sourceforge.net/

acl...nice job. Your site looks nice and works nice.

I've never actually used conky. I'd never see it, I rarely notice my wallpaper because I never see my desktop.