Better tool than top-htop-general Linux technology-Linux technology and application information. See the following for details. When a performance problem occurs, the first action of the Linux system administrator is to run top. The top function has not changed much for many years. Is the system commands such as top really perfect?
Previously, a patch was added to top to provide data of % SYS and % USER. However, it was not adopted because top provided enough data. Is that true?
Not necessarily.
Htop is a better top.
Why?
You can scroll horizontally or vertically (all processes and all command lines are displayed)
Process Tracking (implemented by integrating strace)
Common functions are displayed on the home page, which is convenient. In top, you can use 'H.
Support process Tree display
Process search by name
Supports mouse
Htop is good, but it can be better. The following are the functions I want:
Display files opened by a process
Display process memory ing
More complete man manual (for example, the command line option '-d' for setting the update cycle is not described in the Manual)
P.S. strace is a baby. A separate strace frontend is a good project. It supports the classification and query of strace results.
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