Resource Status Bar

Resource Status Bar adds lightweight VS Code status bar items for whole-machine CPU, memory, and optional GPU usage. Version 0.0.5 improves light-theme visibility, hardens daemon reconnection and IPC handling, and simplifies the internal sampling/config pipeline.

GitHub: https://github.com/MrWLL/resource-status-bar

Features

• Compact text, bar, and barWithPeak display modes
• Current CPU, memory, and optional GPU usage for the whole machine
• Rolling peak values over the configured peak window
• Theme-aware warning colors when usage crosses the threshold
• Per-metric visibility, ordering, alignment, and optional color overrides
• GPU is disabled by default and uses a slower refresh interval when enabled
• GPU falls back to N/A or can be hidden when utilization is unavailable
• CPU, memory, and GPU keep contiguous priorities so they stay grouped in the status bar
• Multiple local desktop VS Code windows share one metrics daemon instead of sampling independently

Settings

• resourceStatusBar.refreshIntervalSeconds
• resourceStatusBar.warningThreshold
• resourceStatusBar.peakWindowSeconds
• resourceStatusBar.showPeak
• resourceStatusBar.displayMode
• resourceStatusBar.barStyle
• resourceStatusBar.alignment
• resourceStatusBar.metricOrder
• resourceStatusBar.percentPrecision
• resourceStatusBar.cpu.enabled
• resourceStatusBar.cpu.color
• resourceStatusBar.memory.enabled
• resourceStatusBar.memory.color
• resourceStatusBar.gpu.enabled
• resourceStatusBar.gpu.color
• resourceStatusBar.gpu.hideWhenUnavailable
• resourceStatusBar.gpu.refreshIntervalSeconds

Notes

• CPU reflects whole-machine utilization.
• On Windows, CPU percentages may not exactly match Task Manager because the underlying APIs use different sampling semantics.
• GPU utilization depends on operating system support, drivers, and hardware telemetry.
• On unsupported machines the GPU item remains visible and shows N/A by default, unless resourceStatusBar.gpu.hideWhenUnavailable is enabled.

Local Desktop Scope

This extension's shared-daemon mode is designed for local desktop VS Code only. Remote SSH, WSL, Dev Containers, Codespaces, and browser-based VS Code are not part of this feature scope.

Shared Daemon Behavior

• Multiple local VS Code windows share one metrics daemon.
• The daemon exits about five seconds after the last VS Code window disconnects.
• Opening a new local VS Code window reconnects to the existing daemon or starts a new one if needed.