Are we all just using htop?

What are some other good ones for killing processes and seeing what’s running?

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Usually have tmux split into panes with htop, nmon and nload running whilst I’m doing whatever in the final quadrant

    It’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

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    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.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    21 hours ago

    I’m probably older than most of you, and I’m not going for the “get off my lawn” answer like the rest of you. Mission center - because graphical user interfaces add value

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    If 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.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    6·
    21 hours ago

    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.

    Edit +44 mins: So, the immediate alternatives all have other things I don’t like about them, but an older version of GNOME System Monitor will still install and run, so I guess I’ll be using that for now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        1·
        17 hours ago

        No. My distro still provides the latest release of the original GNOME system monitor.

        As time has gone on, GNOME have enforced more and more of their own look and feel, completely ignoring any styling that might be provided by other window managers. Some of those might even be using older GTK libraries, but that doesn’t matter.

        Basically if you run a modern GNOME app under KDE, MATE, Xfce, etc., it’s going to look like a GNOME app regardless of what the other windows look like. Very Henry Ford.

        The system monitor is no different. The new version works but the earlier version I found and installed also works fine and fits in. I suspect it’s GTK3 (old) versus GTK4 (new), but I can’t confirm. It’ll be something like that.

        The folks responsible for Linux Mint started the XApps project of GNOME forks to roll back some of GNOME’s nonsense, but I guess they haven’t got around to forking the system monitor yet.

        … and I’ve looked at both Resources and Mission Centre. Neither are to my taste (and are both Flatpaks).

    • ray@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Have you tried MATE System Monitor? It’s a fork of the old GNOME System Monitor from GNOME 2.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        1·
        18 hours ago

        That was the first one I tried, but it’s a fork from too far back.

        The two main issues I had with it were 1) It only reports CPU usage in multiples of X%, where X is the number of cores, which was a long-standing SNAFU in the original GNOME version and 2) the usage graphs on the performance screen are light-mode only, even in dark mode, and there’s no easy option to change it.

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    7·
    23 hours ago

    I usually only use htop to monitor resource usage. I mostly kill stuff with killall or the good old ps aux | grep ... kill combo.