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 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.
Glances?
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.
btop, since I can usevibindings to move around in it.I’m more of a bottom guy myself
atop and htop and glances and several others 8)
htop gives me enough info without being too busy or slow, it’s also in basically every OS repo by default so no complicated install.
The other ones can look awesome, but they’re often harder to get info from quickly due to being too cluttered.
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Htop, but only because its what I’ve always used and have no need to change at the moment.
I run Tilix with split terminals and always have one with
htoprunning. It is so satisfying finding a troublesome process and killing it inhtop.Looking at you hanged ssh sessions…
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 tend to go with
htoppurely out of habit.btopis better but I simply don’t think to use it.Why do you think that? After this post, I will try out both of them but maybe eventually I will still just use
topout of, same as you bro, habit.I find
htopto be far more legible, the white blocks oftoparen’t for me.btopjust seems a bit too much for my use, so I never caught on to it. I do believebtopto be better however, since the point of these programs is to see detailed statistics about your system and running programs.btopshoves a lot more information into your face. I really only openhtopto find the PID of an app or to find what I need to debloat when I’m in a 1337 h4ck3rm4n mood and trying to make the most minimal system possible.the white blocks of
topDid you mean the upper right corner of
top? I also finebtopis overwhelming, too pretty to look at.Yeah, the unicode blocks.
htop is my go-to these days. It tells me what I need to know, and it’s just nice to look at.
I’ve given both
htopandbtopa spin, and I have to say that I really preferhtop. It offers a prettier interface and more features thantop, while still feeling less bloated thanbtopto me. So yeah, it’s definitely my go-to choice!Btop is pretty. Htop tells me what I want to know. I prefer htop and it’s my goto.
