A little review of process (task) monitors and system info tools

• conky

  111 7,179 9.4 C++

  Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

  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.

• SaaSHub

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• htop

  57 6,363 9.3 C

  htop - an interactive process viewer

  

  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.

• iotop

  4 378 7.8 C

  A top utility for IO

  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.

• hardinfo

  7 765 5.0 C

  System profiler and benchmark tool for Linux systems

  Hardinfo: Pretty much anything you could want to know except process monitoring. A good complement to the simpler process monitors.

• Stacer

  16 8,851 3.4 C++

  Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web

  Stacer: Overkill for what I need but absolutely beautiful

• bpytop

  74 10,109 0.0 Python

  Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

• btop

  107 19,904 8.9 C++

  A monitor of resources

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