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flux – search, monitor, and nuke processes

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

flux strips away the clutter and focuses on what matters: quickly finding, monitoring, and acting on processes.

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psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psrecord monitors process CPU and memory usage, recording time-series data, CSV logs and plots, with optional child-process tracking.

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psfu – do stuff with processes

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psfu currently has one major command called tree which is used to show or modify all processes in that process tree.

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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

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procs – modern replacement for ps

June 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

procs is a replacement for ps. It has cross-platform support running under Linux and Windows, with experimental support for macOS.

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pstree – display a tree of processes

June 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree. This is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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