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Always thought
topwas one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable tohtopand the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…
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Underappreciated top
That was my nickname in college.
As a bottom, I appreciate all 12 tops that exist at any given time.
Top is really versatile, but I still love my btop.
I was introduced to btop by my Steam Deck. It is quite nice.
Very cool, thanks. I migrated from
toptohtopa while ago and never looked back, but I occasionally have to use machines that don’t havehtopso it might be time to get familiar with the default tooling.Why do they say that
SIGKILLbad practice? I use it as the second tap if aSIGTERMdoesn’t knock something out. The link in the article is 404ing.SIGKILL is a good way to orphan children. Or end a DB transaction without properly closing it (so the server socket stays open, or the transaction lock isn’t released…) It exists for a reason, but docs usually caution against it because it can cause unexpected behaviors.
Eh, system will take care of the orphans
Turning them into Zombies is certainly a way of dealing with orphans, sure…
New decoration idea for Halloween: orphaned zombie processes
Just some numbers with a
Znext to them…
Ah makes sense. Thanks!
Defaults matter
