top vs htop

[IRJ]

Which one are using and what are some good commands to have handy?

[momurda]

There is a thread about this already somewhere, but searching yield nothing, as usual.

[bnrstnr]

https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/14192/linux-using-top
this?

[momurda]

That and one about other things like htop and others like glances.

[travisdh1]

@momurda said in top vs htop:

That and one about other things like htop and others like glances.

I prefer glances over top or htop now. It gives a nice view of everything the system is doing, including I/O. Or course it uses more CPU to run than top or htop, but the extra load is worth having everything you need to look on in one screen imo.

[IRJ]

@travisdh1 said in top vs htop:

@momurda said in top vs htop:

That and one about other things like htop and others like glances.

I prefer glances over top or htop now. It gives a nice view of everything the system is doing, including I/O. Or course it uses more CPU to run than top or htop, but the extra load is worth having everything you need to look on in one screen imo.

Trying it out now. I just started to get familiar with htop.

[dbeato]

I use htop, but usually end up using ps aux and then grepping what process I want to check.

[travisdh1]

@dbeato said in top vs htop:

I use htop, but usually end up using ps aux and then grepping what process I want to check.

I'm going to show my age here, I've always used ps -ef | grep. The aux switches weren't all available way back when IRIX was still a thing.

[dbeato]

@travisdh1 said in top vs htop:

@dbeato said in top vs htop:

I use htop, but usually end up using ps aux and then grepping what process I want to check.

I'm going to show my age here, I've always used ps -ef | grep. The aux switches weren't all available way back when IRIX was still a thing.

Well, I didn't know that So something else for me to learn.

[Obsolesce]

Glances is nice:

[MattSpeller]

@obsolesce said in top vs htop:

Glances is nice:

Major nostalgia for monochromatic monitors

[StuartJordan]

I'm a glances fan.

[DustinB3403]

I get weird glances while I'm outside. . . does that count?

[JaredBusch]

Between top and htop, I prefer htop. But that is not native installed on most distributions.

Given a choice, I also prefer glances

htop

top

[scottalanmiller]

I use glances

[IRJ]

Glances isnt working for me. I am getting weird error messages...

[JaredBusch]

@irj never saw that before.

[IRJ]

@jaredbusch said in top vs htop:

@irj never saw that before.

That sucks. It looks like a nice interface for a few seconds before it starts erroring out really bad.

[scottalanmiller]

@jaredbusch said in top vs htop:

@irj never saw that before.

Me either. It's always just worked.

[JaredBusch]

@irj said in top vs htop:

@jaredbusch said in top vs htop:

@irj never saw that before.

That sucks. It looks like a nice interface for a few seconds before it starts erroring out really bad.

I have maybe 50+ linux boxes I access on a monthly basis and all of them have glances installed and I have never seen that.