Btop++: Resource monitor for processor, memory, disks, network and processes

I use this. It's much lighter than its predecessor, bpytop.

You can track this by running both and htop with the total CPU time tracker on htop. btop uses less CPU than htop. bpytop uses much more.

This becomes a bigger deal the longer a machine is running. I specifically use btop for this when fuzzing because any CPU it doesn't use goes to the fuzzer. And I still want to track the state of the machine while fuzzing, especially while fuzzing since it's under extreme load.

> Set suid bit to make btop always run as root

> No need for sudo to enable signal sending to any process

How to not security

If you're looking for a lighter weight TUI for Top information check out a recent project of mine here: https://github.com/bakks/poptop

I recall looking at this before support for macos and was slightly disappointed. Now that they have it, I'm going to install it immediatement!

Very cool, but it does flicker for me, and setting background_update to false didn't help.

(Every 2 seconds, it flicker 1-3 times)

If you're installing a distro package or one of the builds mentioned in the link, I encourage you to try building it yourself. The build system is really well thought through, and unusually for a fancy art-ified Makefile it correctly handles the things you'd want as a distro packager too.

I love it alot. Only one problem is I cannot find a way to turn of the gradient effect. It's annoying when I want to look the bottom without scrolling and it's barely visible due to fading gradient

I use btop like I used task manager years ago, mostly for killing processes. Sometimes to check network speed. I rarely reach cpu or memory limits

Love btop, it's gotten even better now that it properly compiles on a clang/musl system.

btop++ is great.

For measuring parallel CPU utilisation, I still prefer htop because it dedicates more screen space to “here and now” CPU usage for each core.