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Re: Htop 3.0

#71

For those who like htop-style system monitoring tools, you should also keep these commands handy: - atop (great for finding out what's causing system-wide slowness when you're not sure whether it's CPU/disk/network/temperature/etc.) - iotop/iftop/sar (top equivalents for disk IO, network traffic, and sysstat counters) - glances/nmon/dstat/iptraf-ng (pretty monitoring CLI-GUI utils with more colors) - systemd-analyze…

htop is a superset of iotop.

Re: Htop 3.0

#72

For those who like htop-style system monitoring tools, you should also keep these commands handy: - atop (great for finding out what's causing system-wide slowness when you're not sure whether it's CPU/disk/network/temperature/etc.) - iotop/iftop/sar (top equivalents for disk IO, network traffic, and sysstat counters) - glances/nmon/dstat/iptraf-ng (pretty monitoring CLI-GUI utils with more colors) - systemd-analyze…

virt-top is handy for libvirt/kvm users (even if simplistic)

Re: Htop 3.0

#73

htop has been on my list of applications I must install immediately on every system for at least 14 years now. I am always a bit shocked when I am reminded about how young of a project it is. I think the only younger tool that I always install is jq.

There's a few I now prefer over their old counterparts: fd, ag, bat. fd and ag (or rg) just do what I expect them to, I don't need to think about how to use them. Both find and grep's syntax trip me up, even after 20 years of using them.

What's bat do? (I'm on board with you on fd and rg)

Re: Htop 3.0

#74
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Android, I don't see any ads with Firefox, but I do with Chrome. Edit: No, actually that is because I have uBlock Origin enabled on Firefox.

I looked with FF both with and without ublock, and I don't see any ads. I don't understand people who gripe about ads when the solutions are ubiquitous and friction-free these days.

If you read the thread, you'd know that the author changed the ad settings an hour after I commented.

Also, just checked again, still ads on Firefox.

I also mentioned a solution.

Re: Htop 3.0

#75

htop has been on my list of applications I must install immediately on every system for at least 14 years now. I am always a bit shocked when I am reminded about how young of a project it is. I think the only younger tool that I always install is jq.

I love jq. Since I just learned this today, I'll mention that python comes with a JSON pretty-printing utility that can be used on the CLI:

  echo '{"some_json": "value"}' | python -m json.tool

Re: Htop 3.0

#76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a few I now prefer over their old counterparts: fd, ag, bat. fd and ag (or rg) just do what I expect them to, I don't need to think about how to use them. Both find and grep's syntax trip me up, even after 20 years of using them.

What's bat do? (I'm on board with you on fd and rg)

bat is essentially a fancier version of cat. It's fully backward compatible but supports syntax highlighting, paging and has git integration.

It's written by the same developer as fd

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

Re: Htop 3.0

#77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a few I now prefer over their old counterparts: fd, ag, bat. fd and ag (or rg) just do what I expect them to, I don't need to think about how to use them. Both find and grep's syntax trip me up, even after 20 years of using them.

What's bat do? (I'm on board with you on fd and rg)

Bat is a cat replacement with syntax highlighting, formatting options; it works great with fd. What's rg?

Re: Htop 3.0

#78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a few I now prefer over their old counterparts: fd, ag, bat. fd and ag (or rg) just do what I expect them to, I don't need to think about how to use them. Both find and grep's syntax trip me up, even after 20 years of using them.

What's bat do? (I'm on board with you on fd and rg)

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Re: Htop 3.0

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's bat do? (I'm on board with you on fd and rg)

Bat is a cat replacement with syntax highlighting, formatting options; it works great with fd. What's rg?

ripgrep (the binary name is rg) is a faster grep written in Rust.

Re: Htop 3.0

#80
post #3

The original maintainer (creator) did an excellent job for 10+ years. Here is his response: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/992#issuecomment-683...

The issue was also opened in a very positive and respectful way, which sets the tone for the whole discussion.

From my own experience, if I've been away from a project for a while sometimes there's this snowball of guilt that just keeps building up, and if there's people saying "hey what the hell?" it just adds to it. Understanding that and making sure there's no implied accusation can go a long way to getting someone to break their silence.

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