
Glances is highly configurable, it can run in: standalone, client/server and web server mode. There are also other tools in the mix, such as glances and atop the former is cross-platform, the most advanced of them all, and it’s becoming popular as well. In addition, the htop package has been moved from the Universe repository (which contains community-maintained free and open-source packages) into the main repository (which contains free and open-source packages supported by Canonical), as shown by the publishing history of htop package in Ubuntu, on Launchpad.īearing in mind these recent advancements concerning the htop package in the Ubuntu repositories, coupled with its growing popularity among Linux users, the big question here is, will htop replace top as the default process monitoring tool on Linux Systems? Let’s watch the space! Read Also: 20 Command Line Tools to Monitor Linux Performance



It doesn’t come preinstalled on most mainstream Linux distributions. It is practically a top-like tool, but it displays colorful text, and uses ncurses to implement a text-graphical interface, and allows for output scrolling.

Htop is an interactive, ncurses-based processes viewer for Linux systems. Read Also: Find Top 15 Processes By Memory Usage in Linux Top is a traditional command-line tool for monitoring real-time processes in a Unix/Linux systems, it’s comes preinstalled on most if not all Linux distributions and shows a useful summary of system information including uptime, total number of processes (and number of: running, sleeping, stopped and zombie processes), CPU and RAM usage, and a list of processes or threads currently being managed by the kernel.
