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Htop - better top
- th 16y agoI always have a screen session open with htop in one terminal. I take it for granted so much the lack of htop bothers me if I need to do any form of process management.
- atsaloli 16y agohtop and atop are my top two top tools http://www.atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php http://www.atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php atop uses color to show when a subsystem goes over warn/critical threshold. it can be run in present time, or can be used to go back in time and "play back the tape"
- Jim_Neath 16y agoI generally have one terminal open with htop as well. It's awesome for finding out which of your processes are battering your system
- d_c 16y agoHtop is really useful, you can hide or show userland threads, switch to a tree view, etc. I use it daily.
- fuxx0r 16y agoIam using it so much. I like the graphs which gives me on a first look a faster overview about cpu/ram. If you got a SMP system every core got his one graph, which wasnt available in top. At least, its the best alternative to top, in my opinion!
- stanley 16y agoWhat are some other must-have applications you guys find useful?
- apphacker 16y agoack
- codepoet 16y agoiftop, mtr
- influx 16y agohttp://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ Dstat
- JulianMorrison 16y agomeld, regexxer
- davidw 16y agostrace
- codepoet 16y agoltrace
- cdmwebs 16y agolsof
- atsaloli 16y agoHere are the tools I find indispensible as a sys admin: - screen for accessing servers - lshw for seeing Linux server hardware config - cfengine for automating my system administration
- pan69 16y agoThis is definitely my favorite HTop screenshot: http://htop.sourceforge.net/128.png http://htop.sourceforge.net/128.png
- ComputerGuru 16y agoIt's the first thing I install on any server these days. I always have an SSH terminal open to htop to monitor my server at all times.
- morphir 16y agohtop is not a generic *nix tool. It depends on the Linux kernel (hard dependencies).
- rimantas 16y agoMacports version runs just fine on Snow leopard
- bch 16y agoI just compiled it on my NetBSD laptop from pkgsrc (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html), (http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/htop http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/htop), and it works no problems... no Linux emulation/support required. Pkgsrc is a cross-platform package management system, originating w/ NetBSD project... I've used it on NetBSD and MacOS successfully. Should work with pretty much any *nix-like system. [edit: though it doesn't appear "fully-integrated". Example: pressing 's' to run strace(1) doesn't work in NetBSD, which uses ktrace(1). Maybe configurable; I haven't got that far...
- bcl 16y agoatop is another useful alternative to top, shows i/o and network activity in addition to all the usual details.
- wendroid 16y agoReally, the best of breed ? TTY & ncurses, what a sad state of affairs. TTY is keeping you down : http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_The_Big_Kernel_Lock2 http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_The_Big_Kernel_Lock2 Rob Pike was right in 1991 : "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." Plan9 is now older than Unix was when Plan9 was started. Operating System research is dead.
- wanderr 16y agoAm I the only person here who hates htop? I just can't get used to it. The lack of labels and relying on color coding to convey information just obfuscates things for me. I still use top for that reason.