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zShxck@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

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I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

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zShxck@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I ditched all top programs on my system, because I have no use for any of them…

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      There’s a top surgery joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    Both are useless toys for newbie sysadmins who think their job is sitting and looking at list of processes.

    • Aatube@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I mean, you do sometimes need to check out which processes are running to debug

      • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Aren’t top or pgrep enough for that?

        • Aatube@kbin.social
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          If it looks better and does the same thing efficiently, I’ll take the thing that looks better.

          • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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            You have a pre-installed tool and a tool that looks better but which you need to install. When you need it for a rare task, and you administer many machines, it is easier to use what you already have on each of them.

            • Aatube@kbin.social
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              Do these programs not work over SSH?

              • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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                Sorry, I don’t understand what you are talking about. Yes, you can run them in SSH session. No, you still need to have them installed on the remote machine to do this. And installing diagnostic tools is not only time consuming, sometimes it can be even impossible if you already get in troubles (and if you did not, why would you need them?).

                • Aatube@kbin.social
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                  Hmm, that’s a fair argument. I’m pretty sure new server installations can just have their default program list modified though.

  • BrioxorMorbide@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Can it show each core’s frequency? Or is there anything other than htop that can do that?

    • tobimai@startrek.website
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      It does

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        I don’t see any option in 1.2.13, and https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/190 suggests it isn’t implemented yet.

        • tobimai@startrek.website
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          True, i confused it with clock frequency.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    One I started using Bpytop, I couldn’t go back.

    • Melco@lemmy.world
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    • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
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      7 months ago

      @JoMiran @zShxck That is very nice. I love the way you can toggle between disk space usage and disk I/O usage. Here is a btop of the machine that friendica.eskimo.com is running on:

  • WuTang @lemmy.ninja
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    why ? Why do you feel the need to have process monitoring displayed all the time?

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      You can sort and filter it.

      More generally, are you questioning why the Top category of tools exists?

      • WuTang @lemmy.ninja
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        no, I am questioning why do you have those open all the time. in 17y, I never had to. This is just ASCII pr0n to look “deep” .

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          I have it open all the time, exactly for this reason. 15 years and going.

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