Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

by feross • 5 years ago

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ohazi• 5 years ago

That terminal UI is a work of art...

GekkePrutser• 5 years ago

Agreed. I thought gotop was cool but wow

aidos• 5 years ago

It’s really nice. That main main screen is giving me flashbacks to Doom.

pridkett• 5 years ago

It’s giving me some pretty heavy mid-90’s BBS vibes. Even the menu with the big BTOP++ logo reminds me of a main menu on a BBS.

Now if we can just slow it down to 240 characters/second to simulate the real experience. It won’t be authentic unless it also slows down when you’re changing colors because of the ANSI escape codes.

yewenjie• 5 years ago

I have been using glances for a terminal sysmon but I don't like that it eats so much RAM. Can someone please recommend a system monitor that is easy to comprehend and less resource hungry?

I am also curious about below [0] since it came up recently.

[0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/below

smoldesu• 5 years ago

Maybe bottom[0]? I use bpytop but probably wouldn't recommend it on account of how heavy it is. I remember bottom being pretty lightweight when I used it, without sacrificing readability.

[0] https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

jeffbee• 5 years ago

Kinda depends on what you want to know and how much memory you think is too much. Implementations range from sar to atop to netdata and many others.

sk5t• 5 years ago

'nmon' doesn't get much attention, but it feels lightweight (I haven't tested if it really is) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nmon

stjohnswarts2• 5 years ago

ytop is nice rust based one if you like the rust ecosystem, it's still good even if you don't but I think you need to install cargo/rust in most cases to build it, I don't think anyone packages it. "cargo install ytop" -> .cargo/bin/ytop

javchz• 5 years ago

The first thing I do with a Linux installation it's always add htop, and this it's the first time I feel the need to try something new in my routine.

brightball2• 5 years ago

htop and multitail are always tied for me.

nerdponx3• 5 years ago

https://linux.die.net/man/1/multitail

I never heard of this one before. What's the benefit instead of doing this with Tmux?

ggregoire• 5 years ago

multitail

You just made my day. I always open multiple ssh sessions just to display various logs at the same time.

Seems like you can even docker-compose logs -tf | multitail -j.

edit: I never took the time to learn tmux but after just watching a use case video, seems like you could achieve the same result with tmux indeed, as the other comment suggested.

404mm• 5 years ago

htop and ncdu

publicarray• 5 years ago

For me, it's been bottom https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom and dua https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli for a while

I've found some other cool CLIs written with rust at https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust

_odey• 5 years ago

Is there a `htop` for temperature or network traffic similar to these tools?

yjftsjthsd-h• 5 years ago

I like htop+dstat as nice compliments, but sadly dstat isn't universally available like htop and it's unmaintained

jancsika• 5 years ago

Author: please make your program name an acronym for

Bower Tesource Onitor for Pinux

btach• 5 years ago

Looks almost identical to bpytop. Super neat!

biglost• 5 years ago

For me it’s enough iotop + bpytop + htop

codetrotter• 5 years ago

The readme for bpytop links to btop++

https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop

It says:

The Linux version of btop++ is complete. Released as version 1.0.0

My impression is that btop++ is the successor to bpytop. Or even if bpytop continues to be maintained that they intend for most people to use btop++ instead going forward.

pabs3• 5 years ago

I recommend the C reimplementation of iotop btw, it has lots more features and is more efficient and is maintained. It is packaged as iotop-c in Debian and other distros.

https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop

xiamx• 5 years ago

It's the same person that wrote bpytop. He also wrote bashtop. 3 times implementation of the same thing. That's dedication!

bloopernova• 5 years ago

Quick word of warning, if you download it: The release archive doesn't create a directory, just untars into $CWD. So do this:

    mkdir btop
    cd btop
    tar xjvf ~/Downloads/btop.....tbz
    ./install.sh

Apart from that, it looks really, really nice. I like it a lot!

isclever• 5 years ago

This is why I have trust issues when github pulling or exploding a tar.

OJFord2• 5 years ago

Maybe it's just me, but this seems like the more obvious behaviour? Personally I'd typically extract in /tmp/relevant-name, and sometimes that results in /tmp/relevant-name/relevant-name.

Doesn't seem a big deal or require/cause trust issues to me.

(And when I create one, I always have to check/look up what happens, so it doesn't surprise me that a variety of things get done at all.)

nerdponx3• 5 years ago

I always check the contents with -t before extracting.

mangamadaiyan• 5 years ago

One could always run "tar tv[z]f" on the archive first, and then choose whether or not to explode it in the current directory.

matoro• 5 years ago

I use atool (https://www.nongnu.org/atool/) for unpacking random archives - it abstracts away all formats including zip/rar/7z, compression and also guarantees that nothing is ever extracted into $CWD.

linsomniac• 5 years ago

Gotta check that out, thanks for the tip!

iudqnolq• 5 years ago

I use `unp` for the same thing. `-u` extracts into a directory.

einpoklum3• 5 years ago

This looks very nice, but the compiler version requirement is very painful for those of us working on machines installed more than a year ago... GCC 10, ouch. I mean, newer versions are great, but when you don't control your machine's OS distribution, installing GCC 10 is not the most trivial thing to do.

jcelerier2• 5 years ago

You can just use a GCC docker image to build: https://hub.docker.com/_/gcc

einpoklum3• 5 years ago

No I can't... without an appropriate installation of docker and/or dependencies of docker.

See: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/#prerequisi...

Naac• 5 years ago

On the surface looks like an improvement over htop ( which I've been using for 10+ years )

But this is the kind of software that I would want to keep using. Will btop keep being supported? Is btop going to be available in practically all distros I use? Even currently on Arch its only in the AUR.

Its also concerning there is btop[0] and bpytop[1]? I don't understand the difference.

[0]https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

[1]https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop

budzynski• 5 years ago

I think bpytop is the previous version writtten in Python. btop++ is a cpp re-write

smichel17• 5 years ago

And, as I just found while poking around, `bpytop` is also a rewrite, of the original(?) `bashtop`.

Svenstaro• 5 years ago

Would you like to have btop in Arch [community]? I could move it if it has enough interest.

esgwpl• 5 years ago

Yes, please. I added a vote on AUR as well.

peakaboo• 5 years ago

Yes!

hullsean• 5 years ago

Wow. That’s hot!

jonnydubowsky• 5 years ago

Does anyone know where I can find that font?

mcbuilder• 5 years ago

Wow, this is a very nice fully featured, with mouse support, terminal application! Just installed from the AUR and hopefully will remember it to replace htop in my mind!

henriquemaia• 5 years ago

Suggestion:

Create an htop alias for btop. Then you'll never have to worry about forgetting it.

filchermcurr• 5 years ago

That's the prettiest 'make' I've ever seen. I wish I had something more useful to contribute but I'm still staring at its beauty.

inshadows• 5 years ago

I'm sure you put a lot of work into it and it looks nice. But terminal just sucks for graphics layout.

stjohnswarts2• 5 years ago

Takes at least gcc-10 to compile, but other than that it was pretty easy to get going.

Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

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