iotop VS conky

Compare iotop vs conky and see what are their differences.

conky

Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too (by brndnmtthws)
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iotop conky
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7.8 9.4
about 1 month ago 2 days ago
C C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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iotop

Posts with mentions or reviews of iotop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-25.
  • Looking for Rust Project Ideas for Semester Project - Any Suggestions?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 25 Feb 2023
    Rewrite something like https://linux.die.net/man/1/iotop in Rust. Currently it is implemented in python, and running it as root does not give a warm fuzzy feeling.( I C version has also been made : https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop but I have not reviewed that )
  • HDD Disk health monitoring
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Jul 2022
  • A little review of process (task) monitors and system info tools
    7 projects | /r/linux | 9 Feb 2022
    Process monitoring is mandatory but CPU and I/O monitoring can be useful. It does a moveable window so I can watch it on a second monitor, along with other app windows, when the app I'm testing is running full screen so conky, although nice, is not quite what I need. In a terminal I use htop and/or iotop but I find graphical apps to be easier to read. I didn't want to have to compile anything or use Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/whatever but there's already a bunch of monitors in the repos so I checked them out and here's what I found.
  • BTOP++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
    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

conky

Posts with mentions or reviews of conky. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing iotop and conky you can also consider the following projects:

btop - A monitor of resources

eww - ElKowars wacky widgets

awesome-alternatives-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

hardinfo - System profiler and benchmark tool for Linux systems

glava - GLava - OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer

below - A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems

cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

unp - Unpacks things.

MangoHud - A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb