Htop - better top

This is definitely my favorite HTop screenshot: <a href="http://htop.sourceforge.net/128.png" rel="nofollow">http://htop.sourceforge.net/128.png</a>

I always have a screen session open with htop in one terminal. I take it for granted so much the lack of htop bothers me if I need to do any form of process management.

What are some other must-have applications you guys find useful?

It's the first thing I install on any server these days. I always have an SSH terminal open to htop to monitor my server at all times.

htop is not a generic *nix tool. It depends on the Linux kernel (hard dependencies).

atop is another useful alternative to top, shows i/o and network activity in addition to all the usual details.

Htop is really useful, you can hide or show userland threads, switch to a tree view, etc. I use it daily.

Am I the only person here who hates htop? I just can't get used to it. The lack of labels and relying on color coding to convey information just obfuscates things for me. I still use top for that reason.

Iam using it so much. I like the graphs which gives me on a first look a faster overview about cpu/ram.<p>If you got a SMP system every core got his one graph, which wasnt available in top.<p>At least, its the best alternative to top, in my opinion!

Really, the best of breed ?<p>TTY &#38; ncurses, what a sad state of affairs.<p>TTY is keeping you down : <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_The_Big_Kernel_Lock2" rel="nofollow">http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_The_Big_Kernel_Lock2</a><p>Rob Pike was right in 1991 : "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad."<p>Plan9 is now older than Unix was when Plan9 was started. Operating System research is dead.