[kwlug-disc] htop - wonderful utility to view processes in console

[Chamunks]

If you like htop I would also suggest a look at Glances
https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:56 AM <tomg at sentex.ca> wrote:

> Quoting Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>:
>
> > I have been using it for a decade or more.
>
> Cool.
>
> > Really nice, and customizable too ...
>
> It's by default installed on KNOPPIX, which is how I first found out
> about it.
>
> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:48 PM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc
>
> >> and have fun looking at trees of server processes in console (F5)
>
> That was interesting on my client system.  I almost feel like I went
> on a journey :-).
>
> I've been addicted to top since I first found out about it on NetBSD
> in 1996 or so.  It's so interesting.  I once submitted a top output as
> a screenshot for my last LUG, but with only it and bash and kernel
> threads running on 256 GB of RAM, which was a lot at the time.  Some
> other people were impressed and voted for it, but I did not win =).
>
> I have noticed that top on Linux uses /proc and uses several times as
> much CPU as BSD's sysctl interface, but I guess that's a compromise on
> Linux that I am willing to make.
>
> I'll have to give htop another try since so many people are enthusiastic
> for it.  :)  I have never really liked the system monitors that came
> with OS X, GNOME, KDE, etc., although gtop or gprocess manager, or
> something, a GTK 1.x top redo was good.  I don't know why GNOME System
> Monitor and Ksysguard are so slow, but it's a turn off.
>
> I used to have the task manager open on Windows all the time, that's
> probably their nicest program.
>
> Tom
>
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