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

[tomg at sentex.ca]

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