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submitted 1 month ago by Ephera@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn't show much of it...

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[-] paequ2@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

I would often just grab htop because I had no idea how to read the CPU usage out of top.

lol, same! 1t gets me 90% of the functionality I use in htop.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

i also hit 4 a few times to give more columns to the cpu usage meters.

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