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Re:Htop Explained by shanecoin on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:08PM (#21415410)
One of my favorite things about htop are some of the projects that have been created that are modeled after htop but focus on information other than system resources.

Cointop [0] is one of these projects that comes to mind.

[0] https://github.com/miguelmota/cointop

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Re:Htop Explained by the_pwner224 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:17PM (#21415465)
intel_gpu_top helped me solve a mysterious performance issue on a MacBook after countless hours of fruitless investigation. Overheating and throttling was an issue but even after I fixed it the system would lag hard - instantly when I used the external 4k display, and after a while on the internal 1440p screen. Turns out cool-retro-term was maxing out the integrated Intel GPU which caused the entire system to stutter and lag.

Unfortunately both the MBP and my current XPS 15 are unable to drive cool-retro-term on a 4k display with the CPU integrated graphics, and they both overheat and throttle if I use the nvidia graphics card :/

It's a really cool terminal though: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

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Re:Htop Explained by adrianN on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:48AM (#21416914)
It's amazing that we think it's a good idea to pack powerful hardware into laptops that are too thin to actually make use of that hardware.
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Re:Htop Explained by matheusmoreira on Saturday November 02, 2019 @07:09AM (#21427004)
Laptops have very poor cooling. I have a Clevo laptop with a great processor but it will sometimes throttle itself to cool down. Great for small bursts of activity such as compilation but I don't understand how they could market these laptops as gaming machines. Running ffmpeg stabilizes the temperature at a healthy 96 degrees.
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Re:Htop Explained by mprovost on Friday November 01, 2019 @11:57AM (#21420172)
It's more amazing to me that this modern powerful hardware can't emulate technology from 1983 without overheating.
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Re:Htop Explained by adrianN on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:11PM (#21428426)
Modern powerful hardware has a hard time emulating a glass of water with good fidelity. Reproducing physical effects like ghosting is often harder than it looks.
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Re:Htop Explained by Jonnax on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:30AM (#21417047)
There's a lot of different usages that may not heat the GPU as much. Also Windows might have better thermal management in the drivers.

CPU wise, Intel defines their TDP as the average heat dissipation, but the CPU can boost higher than this. But from what I understand they tell manufactures to design to the TDP.

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Re:Htop Explained by MasterScrat on Friday November 01, 2019 @06:54AM (#21417573)
Most importantly, nvtop: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop

"NVIDIA GPUs htop like monitoring tool"

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Re:Htop Explained by Fnoord on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:00AM (#21417845)
Radeontop [1]

[1] https://github.com/clbr/radeontop

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Re:Htop Explained by Pawamoy on Saturday November 02, 2019 @07:23AM (#21427037)
Shameless plug: aria2p. I built an interactive interface very similar to htop to see your aria2 downloads progress.

https://github.com/pawamoy/aria2p

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Re:Htop Explained by vidar on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:49AM (#21417310)
Curious to see more examples
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Re:Htop Explained by IronBacon on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:32AM (#21417722)
jnettop

Well, it has "top" in the name. ^__~ I would say that jnettop is more similar to nethogs than htop...

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Re:Htop Explained by Scarblac on Friday November 01, 2019 @06:36AM (#21417501)
I know iotop exists, but I've never used it.
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Re:Htop Explained by xorcist on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:46AM (#21417777)
htop can do all (most?) of what iotop can.

Press S in htop and you can select to show i/o-related data, including number of bytes and number of operations in total and per second.

You will need to be root to look at most i/o related data.

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Re:Htop Explained by m1 on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:39AM (#21418621)
Have any more examples?
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Re:Htop Explained by MasterScrat on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:19AM (#21419118)
k9s for Kubernetes: https://github.com/derailed/k9s#screenshots
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Re:Htop Explained by Aweorih on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:01PM (#21420223)
Innotop for mysql https://github.com/innotop/innotop
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Re:Htop Explained by 1996 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:57PM (#21416159)
Focus on information does not requires ncurses. Try:

elinks http://cmplot.com/accessible-index.html

(the other parts require subscription)

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Re:Htop Explained by pnako on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:57AM (#21416381)
Why is everything in scientific notation? This is about as sensible as the concept of picodollars.
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Re:Htop Explained by 1996 on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:01AM (#21416573)
The mantissa change more on a day to day basis than the exponent, allowing more information density for the relevant parts
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Re:Htop Explained by dmos62 on Friday November 01, 2019 @06:56AM (#21417582)
To me a browser for this seems like overkill, but I can understand the argument that "everyone already has a browser open", even if I don't think that it leads to good places.
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Re:Htop Explained by monsieurbanana on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:02AM (#21416745)
It doesn't require, but damn, my life would be so bleak without ncurses.
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