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Underappreciated top (friendo.monster)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Ephera@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn't show much of it...

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait... what?

$ top --version
top from procps-ng 4.0.5-dirty

The following utilities are provided by procps:

  • free - Report the amounts of free and used memory in the system
  • hugetop - Report hugepage usage of processes and the system as a whole
  • kill - Send a signal to a process based on PID
  • pgrep - List processes based on name or other attributes
  • pkill - Send a signal to a process based on name or other attributes
  • pmap - Report the memory map of a process
  • ps - Report process information including PID and resource usage
  • pwdx - Report the current working directory of a process
  • skill - Obsolete version of pgrep/pkill
  • slabtop - Display kernel slab cache information in real time
  • snice - Renice a process
  • sysctl - Read or write kernel parameters at run-time
  • tload - Graphical representation of system load average
  • top - Dynamic real-time view of running processes
  • uptime - Display how long the system has been running
  • vmstat - Report virtual memory statistics
  • w - Report logged in users and what they are doing
  • watch - Execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

Oh, so these guys manage top and a few other common utilities.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, these guys manage a version of top. There are dozens of versions. Every major OS has their own top, or an equivalent. I bet there are even linux distros that don't use this version of top.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oooooh, ok. TIL.

At least Arch and Debian seem to use top from procps-ng. Good to know.