I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is
furycd001, 
I ditched all top programs on my system, because I have no use for any of them…
berg, How do you check what is eating up all your memory/cpu?
furycd001, (edited ) My computer just works so I’ve never needed to check, but I run XFCE & have xfce4-taskmanager installed, so I could use that if I ever needed…
berg, Ah, I see. I use htop as a task manager.
Kushia, 
Just download more, simple.
TylerDurdenJunior, mount google drive as swap. RAM downloaded !!
Kushia, I kinda want someone to make this for shits and giggles.
ChairmanMeow, 
blog.horner.tj/how-to-kinda-download-more-ram/
Already been done.
milkjug, ⬆️ This man is too dangerous to be left alive.
anoklola, 
To get a comprehensive overview of your system's resource usage, install and run the
btopcommand. It's a top-like interactive system monitor that displays a range of system information, including:-CPU usage (per core and overall)
-RAM usage (free, used, and cached)
-Disk usage (per disk and overall)
-Network usage (bytes sent and received)
-Process list (with CPU, RAM, and disk usage per process)
-System temperature
-Uptime
DefinitelyNotAPhone, 
There’s a top surgery joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.
TwinTusks, I only use htop to kill process when it froze.
furycd001, I just use xkill for that…
TwinTusks, A question, what tod do when the laptop is completely frozen, as in you can’t even move your mouse. Is the only solution to force shutdown?
Matty_r, 
You can try the Magic SysRq key, if its enabled.
lowmane, Switch to a different virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F3), login and restart desktop manager, switch back to the normal GUI terminal (ctrl-alt-F2)
furycd001, Thankfully I’ve never had that happen, but if it did I would probably just switch to a tty & use the killall command on whatever was giving me bother…
BrioxorMorbide, Can it show each core’s frequency? Or is there anything other than htop that can do that?
tobimai, It does
BrioxorMorbide, I don’t see any option in 1.2.13, and github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/190 suggests it isn’t implemented yet.
tobimai, True, i confused it with clock frequency.
4am, I just wish there was a .deb package.
Still gonna get around to making a playbook for installing it someday. btop (and it’s predecessors) are awesome.
caseyweederman, There’s a deb in Ubuntu Universe.
Oh heck, it’s in Debian Bookworm too, and Bullseye-Backports.
Debs all around.
4am, I could have sworn I checked and didn’t find it. I’ll look again, maybe I did something wrong
Shinji_Ikari, 
ps -aux | grep yourmom
zShxck, Get in the robot Shinji
Frederic, I’m using lcdproc on a 20x4 characters display, it’s enough to see cpu, load, mem, Network, etc
the_lone_wolf, 
Show us
Frederic, https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/4e2c3f8c-d511-4ace-9806-f3d31c737aad.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0b39aaf9-a292-449d-8c4e-c87f380db571.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/c3582e3b-396d-4382-9f5f-1f8ebad67d35.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0648ceda-0341-491c-901d-1a66f9fefc9f.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/135f1877-a56d-4a1c-891a-aea63f0a3451.webp
not_amm, Very nice
oscardejarjayes, bottom users rise up. RIIR!
dan, 
This looks great! Thanks for the recommendation.
I like Netdata because it’s web based, has a large number of metrics, you can pan/zoom the graphs, and it doesn’t use much CPU power. Console UIs are nice but they’re more limiting than something web-based.
257m, Perhaps someone can implement something w3mimage or sixels in btop for pannable graphs. Don’t know how efficient that is.
MonkderZweite, has more empty space. Can the user change that?
Kwdg, You can collapse the subwindows and configure the graphs
MonkderZweite, Oh, good.
reteo, 
It's very attractive, but it also seems to have a minimum window size requirement that exceeds the "stack" in my "master and stack."
It's great to use if you need a dashboard to track issues, but for a quick look at running processes, I think I'll stick with htop.
257m, The nord theme on btop is blissful. It looks so good.
beta_tester, Crazy
filcuk, Purely on aesthetics, I find bashtop nicer, but I couldn’t get it on my server.
I often use glances for general monitoring.
WuTang, 
why ? Why do you feel the need to have process monitoring displayed all the time?
caseyweederman, You can sort and filter it.
More generally, are you questioning why the Top category of tools exists?
WuTang, no, I am questioning why do you have those open all the time. in 17y, I never had to. This is just ASCII pr0n to look “deep” .
spacedout, 
I have it open all the time, exactly for this reason. 15 years and going.
caseyweederman, Haha, to look deep? Same here.
towerful, As you gaze into the btop, the btop gazes into you
1984, 
You are right, they aren’t open all the time except in screenshots. :)
zShxck, If you press P you can get rid of them
0x0, It’s a tool. It’s useful to figure out if something you’re running is IO-bound or CPU-bound. It also shows per-core load, which is useful for visualizing multi-threaded performance.
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