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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Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
Read moretop 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.
Read morebtop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
Read moreOut of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation.
Read moreThis 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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