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

[Mikalai Birukou]

It has modes, like server, to show info in a web interface! Nice option.

On 2019-01-12 2:52 p.m., Chamunks wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:tomg at sentex.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Quoting Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com <mailto: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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Mikalai Birukou
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