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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 -

by imrehg 3mo ago

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 https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

MomsAVoxell 3mo ago
Yup, btop zealot here, it even replaced iStatMenu on my brand new MacBook ..
- NetOpWibby 3mo ago
  Oh wow, now I gotta check it out.
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zackify 3mo ago
Same. Btop is the best
- JdeBP 3mo ago
  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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778757 (https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/ https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/) * https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728 https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728
hinkley 3mo ago
I still occasionally use alpine as a base image for containers and it looks like both doesn’t do musl so that’s out.
bilegeek 3mo ago
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.
- reaperducer 3mo ago
  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.
  - JdeBP 3mo ago
    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.
internet101010 3mo ago
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.
jingpostmedia 3mo ago
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by imrehg 3mo ago

MomsAVoxell 3mo ago

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

NetOpWibby 3mo ago
Oh wow, now I gotta check it out.

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zackify 3mo ago

Same. Btop is the best

JdeBP 3mo ago
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778757 (https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/ https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/) * https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728 https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728

hinkley 3mo ago

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

bilegeek 3mo ago

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.

reaperducer 3mo ago
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.
- JdeBP 3mo ago
  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.

internet101010 3mo ago

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.

jingpostmedia 3mo ago

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