(double posted, so reply to your list) I just discovered a new tool: *btop*. What I found useful are - cpu frequency - network speed
William Park via Talk said on Wed, 6 May 2026 17:04:32 -0400
(double posted, so reply to your list)
I just discovered a new tool: *btop*. What I found useful are - cpu frequency - network speed
Cool. I installed and am using it. Thanks! SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com
On Wed, 6 May 2026 at 17:04, William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I just discovered a new tool: btop.
I've been using glances for a "top" type of tool. https://glances.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html My research indicates that an advantage of glances is its built-in client-server mode for remote monitoring. I've never used this feature and only run it locally or through an ssh shell, so I'll see if btop is better for me. -- Scott
My CachyOS has "glances" installed. It shows IP here. And, according to its doc, it can show public IP (when doing remote monitoring, I assume). Can it show multiple internal IPs? I can't check here, because I only have 1 internal IP. On 2026-05-07 08:28, Scott Allen via Talk wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 2026 at 17:04, William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I just discovered a new tool: btop. I've been using glances for a "top" type of tool.
https://glances.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
My research indicates that an advantage of glances is its built-in client-server mode for remote monitoring. I've never used this feature and only run it locally or through an ssh shell, so I'll see if btop is better for me.
On Wed, 6 May 2026 at 17:04, William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
(double posted, so reply to your list)
I just discovered a new tool: *btop*. What I found useful are - cpu frequency - network speed
This looks exactly like `bpytop` which I encountered several years ago and really liked. But it soon vanished from the Debian(?) repos. It was written in Python and it was a bit sluggish, so I had mixed feelings and didn't go looking to build it myself. As it turns out, `btop` is by the same author - which explains the similarity of appearance. If you look at the two git repos, it looks like `btop` is being worked on and `bpytop` has been abandoned. Using C++ for this version probably addressed the sluggishness. Glad to see this is still around (and in the Debian repos), thanks for pointing it out. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
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