Comments on: Will ‘Htop’ Replace Default ‘Top’ Monitoring Tool in Linux? https://www.tecmint.com/htop-vs-top-in-linux/ Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:25:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Johny Why https://www.tecmint.com/htop-vs-top-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1287468 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:25:12 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=29516#comment-1287468 Hi, the top command can do some things you said it can’t:

  • Kill without entering PID: Scroll with arrows until your target process is at the top of the list. Type 'k'. Your target process will be pre-entered (see “default”).
  • Scroll all tasks: You can, just use arrow and page keys. Don’t use the terminal scrollbar.
  • Tree view: type 'V'.
  • Colors: type 'z'. Customize colors: 'Z'
  • Bar-graphs: type 'm' and 't' repeatedly.

cheers!

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By: Harry https://www.tecmint.com/htop-vs-top-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1263773 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 04:22:00 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=29516#comment-1263773 In reply to Aaron Kili.

You can’t kill a process from Glances.

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By: Kees https://www.tecmint.com/htop-vs-top-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-993923 Fri, 18 May 2018 19:31:49 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=29516#comment-993923 In reply to Aaron Kili.

Your article is not correct, your arguments here make it even worse. Sure it doesn’t have mouse support, how many terminal applications do? I can only think of vim and tmux, and it’s hardly used. If you want a GUI with mouse support (and pretty colors?..) then use GNOME system monitor.

top needs a PID, of course, you want to tune/kill a specific process. This tool is meant for production, not to kill your LibreOffice processes. For a process tree, hit c and then V in top. Please update this article and do your research, if you can even call reading a man/help page ‘research’.

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By: Aaron Kili https://www.tecmint.com/htop-vs-top-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-993651 Fri, 18 May 2018 06:12:52 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=29516#comment-993651 In reply to Kees de Jong.

@Kees

Atleast top doesn’t support mouse operations, it is not configurable, requires a PID to kill or renice a process and others. Does it even display a process tree, i haven’t seen this feature yet.

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By: Aaron Kili https://www.tecmint.com/htop-vs-top-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-993646 Fri, 18 May 2018 06:05:35 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=29516#comment-993646 In reply to DannyB.

@DannyB

Yes, i personally prefer glances to all these monitoring tools, it is modern, more advanced and feature-rich. Thanks for the contribution.

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