Hi,
On my Netbook running Ubuntu NBR, there is an app called "System Monitor" which shows CPU History, Memory and Swap History, Network History.
I usually invoke it from the GNOME GUI
And here is the command from bash:-
ian@Hawking:~$ gnome-system-monitor &
HTH,
Ian
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