Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

[Naac]

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]

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

[Svenstaro]

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

[bloopernova]

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!

[matoro]

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.

[isclever]

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

[javchz]

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.

[404mm]

htop and ncdu

[yjftsjthsd-h]

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

[brightball]

htop and multitail are always tied for me.

[ohazi]

That terminal UI is a work of art...

[aidos]

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

[pridkett]

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.

[GekkePrutser]

Agreed. I thought gotop was cool but wow

[jancsika]

Author: please make your program name an acronym for

Bower Tesource Onitor for Pinux

[yewenjie]

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]

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

[sk5t]

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

[jeffbee]

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.

[stjohnswarts]

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

[filchermcurr]

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.

[einpoklum]

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.

[jcelerier]

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

[mcbuilder]

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]

Suggestion:

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

[biglost]

For me it’s enough iotop + bpytop + htop

[codetrotter]

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.

[xiamx]

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

[pabs3]

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

[stjohnswarts]

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

[btach]

Looks almost identical to bpytop. Super neat!

[jonnydubowsky]

Does anyone know where I can find that font?

[hullsean]

Wow. That’s hot!

[inshadows]

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