btop
Based on "Awesome Terminal Applications" at https://medium.com/gitconnected/awesome-terminal-applications-e4a06022dffa
Based on "btop" at https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
To monitor the system performance and understand what’s going on, there is a default tool called top
Go to your terminal and run:
$ top
the output, which will look like this:
top
This shows you the basic system status, the number of processes, and so on.
But there is a better version of this tool: btop.
Let’s first install it.
On Mac:
$ brew install btop
On Linux:
$ brew install btop
After the command is successful run:
$ btop
And you will see the following output:
btop
How cool is that?
But wait a minute. This is not just beautiful. This is functional as well.
You will see the shortcuts are given. You can use your mouse or keyboard to navigate and kill unnecessary processes.