There are a lot of CPU and Memory meters out there, both for text mode like top or htop and for graphics mode, today I will show you two for graphics mode.

Let's start with CPU

wmcpuload

To install this on Debian or Ubuntu run:

apt-get install wmcpuload

once installed run it with:

wmcpuload -bl -wp &

wmmemmon

To install this on Debian or Ubuntu run:

apt-get install wmmemmon

once installed run it with:

wmmemmon -bl -wp &

And here is how they look, once running.

You can run

man wmmemmon

and

man wmcpuload