Are we all just using htop?
What are some other good ones for killing processes and seeing what’s running?
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I just use “ps aux” . Like one of the big boys.
pgrepandpkill -9when those work for unresponsive programsKDE’s System Monitor when using the above doesn’t work
For looking cool/viewing running programs:
btopMission control, its way easier to see what’s going on and kill it when necessary
Used to top, now I btop
Used to top, now I bottom
I thought this was implied? /s
Yes, htop. And occasionally I’m in the mood for
btop.+1 for btop
When you want people to think you are mad hax. Btop. It isn’t the most succinct display. But damn it’s purdy.
htop scales better on small terminal windows, but btop is prettier and more useful if I dedicate a whole monitor to it.
yeah I like btop too!
I’m probably older than most of you, and I’m not going for the “get off my lawn” answer like the rest of you. Mission center - because graphical user interfaces add value
I prefer Resources but I like Mission Center as well. Plasma’s System Monitor has come a long way as well.
Im all for graphical if its functional, and doesn’t change visually with updates
Just htop. Never found a reason to switch
Glances
It shows you all the usual stuff, but as a bonus, you’ll also get disk I/O and temperature sensors.If you’re maxing out your CPU, you’ll know which application is doing it and how hot the CPU is.
+1 htop
Terminal. The way God intended .
Thank you for this. Great read
Usually have
tmuxsplit into panes withhtop,nmonandnloadrunning whilst I’m doing whatever in the final quadrantIt’s interesting to watch what happens on my NAS when I run a backup, to see that the CPU, network and disks don’t do what you think they’ll do when they do whatever they’re doing
System monitor
btmgangfinally representation matters
+1 for
btmIdk, something about its name really resonates with me 🤣
I usually only use
htopto monitor resource usage. I mostly kill stuff withkillallor the good oldps aux | grep ... killcombo.s/killall/pkill/
If I want to watch resource usage over time, KDE Plasma’s System Monitor does the job. I like that I can customize its panels and graph data from just about any sensor in the system.
For anything else, it’s usually command line tools like ps, pgrep, kill, and occasionally plain old top.
I use htop over SSH, otherwise any DE I’m using usually provides one and I use that.
