Underappreciated top
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Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…

    • paequ2@lemmy.today
      4·
      1 day ago

      Wait… what?

      $ top --version
top from procps-ng 4.0.5-dirty

      The following utilities are provided by procps:

      • free - Report the amounts of free and used memory in the system
      • hugetop - Report hugepage usage of processes and the system as a whole
      • kill - Send a signal to a process based on PID
      • pgrep - List processes based on name or other attributes
      • pkill - Send a signal to a process based on name or other attributes
      • pmap - Report the memory map of a process
      • ps - Report process information including PID and resource usage
      • pwdx - Report the current working directory of a process
      • skill - Obsolete version of pgrep/pkill
      • slabtop - Display kernel slab cache information in real time
      • snice - Renice a process
      • sysctl - Read or write kernel parameters at run-time
      • tload - Graphical representation of system load average
      • top - Dynamic real-time view of running processes
      • uptime - Display how long the system has been running
      • vmstat - Report virtual memory statistics
      • w - Report logged in users and what they are doing
      • watch - Execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

      https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

      Oh, so these guys manage top and a few other common utilities.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        No, these guys manage a version of top. There are dozens of versions. Every major OS has their own top, or an equivalent. I bet there are even linux distros that don’t use this version of top.