Why do you find yourself opting for btop
or htop
instead of top
? What advantages do these tools offer that make them superior to top
in your opinion?
top
has served me well, so I’m unsure why I would want to burden my system with the addition of htop
or btop
. With top
, if you wish to terminate a process, simply press ‘k’ and send the signal; it’s that simple. If you’d like to identify the origin of a process, just include the command column.
I often find myself intrigued when encountering comments on posts expressing love for htop
/btop
. To me, it appears unnecessary or BLOATED!! Please do share your perspectives and help broaden my Linux knowledgebase.
I run Tilix with split terminals and always have one with
htop
running. It is so satisfying finding a troublesome process and killing it inhtop
.Looking at you hanged ssh sessions…
Btop, it’s pretty. Htop when I’m lazy or working on a system that’s bare bones.
herontop
Htop, but only because its what I’ve always used and have no need to change at the moment.
They’re different tools with different purposes. What you’re asking is like “which do you prefer, hand driver, box/open end wrench, socket wrench or impact driver?”
Ps and top can be used to very easily figure out and address when processes are screwing up. Atop, htop and btop can be used to directly view stuff hardware reports in real-ish time so you can figure out if a process has stopped being “stepped” across cores, a disk has stopped responding in time or when there’s a lot of network traffic.
As utilities they operate within fundamentally different scopes, to the point with btop of being extremely zoomed out macro pictures that are helpful when taking in abstract information about a system.
I’m more of a bottom guy myself
Thanks for the share. Never heard of this until now and the Temperature Sensor and Disk Utilization widgets are awesome.
MeOnTop
atop and htop and glances and several others 8)
Glances?
top is the standard.
I am a chad htop enjoyer, I find btop and other alternatives too much on the eyes for me personally and HTOP has enough info for me to take a look at in terms of system resources.
Either that or I just use the regular gnome GUI system monitor lol
I use btop in tmux on my server but on the desktop I run htop in a dropdown terminal when I need to keep am eye on things
As to the why it depends on the use case but on my server I can monitor all disks and networks utilization by interface in addition to processor and memory usage with btop.
Htop is easier to parse due to the colors but I’ll still use top if on a remove server to check something in work.
I like btop. It’s pretty. I just use it for checking resource usage, I rarely have the need to kill a process or anything else one may do with a system monitor.
btop
, since I can usevi
bindings to move around in it.btop
for system resource monitoring,htop
for actually finding and killing processes