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I've relatively recently migrated over to using btop[0], and it's the kind of modern interface, useful and informative, that I needed.

As others mention it - it seems to shows the Watts used as well :) (and network, and GPU, and disks,....)

[0]: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

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I like btop, but there are downsides:

1.) No zram/zswap statistics. (Though htop only supports zram also.)

2.) No ZFS statistics breakdown.

3.) Doesn't support Arc GPU yet.

4.) I can't disable the disk fill bars, which makes the I/O rate graphs extremely squished unless the console window is very large.

5.) Requires an 80x24 window. Not ideal for monitoring several machines at once.

htop scales all the way down to 40x8 on my TRS-80.

It's bad the other way, too. btop on a 50×232 terminal over an actual 57600 BPS serial line is unusable, even in 16-colour mode. It does not have even the most basic of full-screen TUI redraw optimizations, and outputs the entire screen again and again.

Long time user of btop. Only thing it is missing is a ports column next to the others. Also I think the cpu/gpu graph graph is way oversized and would like more space occupied by the open file table in general.

I still occasionally use alpine as a base image for containers and it looks like both doesn’t do musl so that’s out.

Yup, btop zealot here, it even replaced iStatMenu on my brand new MacBook ..

Oh wow, now I gotta check it out.

Same. Btop is the best

Well, unless one is using FreeBSD or OpenBSD, where the btop code is still using 32-bit integers to calculate 64-bit sizes, and falling prey to unsigned integer wraparound. htop's code calculates using size_t, which ends up as a 64-bit integer on 64-bit architectures.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778757 (https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/)

* https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728

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