Are we all just using htop?
What are some other good ones for killing processes and seeing what’s running?
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btmIdk, something about its name really resonates with me 🤣
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CTRL ALT BACKSPACE always been my favorite « task manager »
Htop. This is the way.
+1 htop
Terminal. The way God intended .
Thank you for this. Great read
I usually only use
htopto monitor resource usage. I mostly kill stuff withkillallor the good oldps aux | grep ... killcombo.s/killall/pkill/
Well, I was going to say GNOME’s System Monitor which has always been the default GUI task manager on my distro, but it’s been getting steadily more and more GNOME-ified with every revision and frankly, I hate how it looks now.
Might be time to shop for an alternative.
Have you tried MATE System Monitor? It’s a fork of the old GNOME System Monitor from GNOME 2.
The GNOME task manager is getting updated to Resources. Is this the one you speak of?
System monitor
Quick overview htop
More filtered ps aux
Killing with (p)killIf 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.
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.
Used to top, now I btop
Used to top, now I bottom
I thought this was implied? /s
I use htop over SSH, otherwise any DE I’m using usually provides one and I use that.
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
Just htop. Never found a reason to switch
Mission control, its way easier to see what’s going on and kill it when necessary
