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.
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Yeah, I can understand RAM use in
htop, but not intopAlso, the Tree View makes it easy to see which part of has become a zombie, etc.
To be honest, I really prefer
btop’s sleek UI. It looks so modern and advanced. But with all its beauty and abundance of information, it can be overwhelming at times or in another words, bloattt. That’s why I personally lean towardshtop’s text-based interface, which I find highly customizable to my preferences. Plus, htop offers more features and conveniences thantop, making it my go-to choice for now.
Uh, temperatures, that’s nice.
I’d really like one of these to include GPU stats (I know, there’s nvtop or whatever it’s called), GUI apps can do it (Mission Center and a KDE system monitor widget), but I’ve not seen a CLI program include that …
btop has GPU stats in recent versions.
It does? Amazing, hopefully that lands on my systems at some point.
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.
Btop
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Totally, but I do want to know about other people experience tho. So if you don’t mind, share with me my friend.
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htop on our vms and clusters, because it’s in all the repos, it’s fast, it’s configurable by a deployable config file, it’s very clearly laid out and it does everything I need. I definitely would not call it bloated in any way.
My config includes network and i/o traffic stats, and details cpu load type - this in particular makes iowait very easy to spot when finding out why something’s racking up big sysloads. Plus, it looks very impressive on a machine with 80 cores…
My brain can’t parse top’s output very well for anything other than looking for the highest cpu process.
But - ymmv. Everyone has a preference and we have lots of choice, it doesn’t make one thing better or worse than another.
btopbecause pretty colors :3i still need to learn how to use
topwell though, just in case that’s the only option some day. if all else fails i just resort back topsand(p)kill.Now that you mention it, I also have to check out
psjust in case…
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.
btopfor system resource monitoring,htopfor actually finding and killing processesHtop is completly customizable for how the sections of data are displayed. it is a bit convoluted the first time you start, but then it makes
…sense.
Yeah not sure what Jerboa did with my last word. Sense is what I typed.
…pation
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.
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.
glances
Never heard of it. I will have to check it out later.
Btop, it’s pretty. Htop when I’m lazy or working on a system that’s bare bones.
I love btop because of how fancy the graphs look and it also shows disk utilisation. I use it pretty much wherever I can. When I want something more simple I use bottom
btm --basicand alias it totopNever heard of
bottombefore, I will check it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
