Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Tag: top
13 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility
top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.
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Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor
btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools
Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation.
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Essential System Tools: gtop – System monitoring dashboard for the terminal
This is the second in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. gtop is an open source system monitoring utility written in JavaScript.
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