Wow. wat. This is top??

The only reason I use htop is because I never bothered to learn top. I'm totally down to avoid downloading and installing another utility though. The time to learn top is TODAY!

Why are good features never made defaults in some tools? We can make it look almost like htop and it feels like the defaults couldn't be worse. It's such a waste to hide good features behind bad defaults.

That moment when you realize you're not in !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone and people are talking about an entirely different kind of top than you were thinking.

This is dope, though, I also thought top was just stuck in time.

Take a look at btop.

I'm also underappreciated top

I wish the author can just share a configuration file. I am not configuring this on all my machines manually.

Defaults matter

I missed this part during my first read:

This screen allows you to customise which fields are displayed in the currently selected window. Use cursor keys (or Alt + j and k) to move up and down this list, d to toggle whether a field is displayed and s to choose the field by which the window is sorted.

and when I tried it, it seemed like my commands weren't doing anything... so in case anyone else finds this helpful...

How to sort columns in top.

• Launch top
• Press f (not SHIFT+F)
• Use arrow keys or alt+j / alt+k to select a column
• Press s to sort by the column you've currently selected
  • note: you won't get any obvious feedback, this is normal... I guess
  • look at the top line: whose current sort field is $COLUMN_NAME
  • this line will change when you press s
• Press q to exit the Fields Management screen
• Selected column should now be sorted from largest to smallest

At this point, top may not look like it sorted the selected column. It may be helpful to tell top to highlight the currently sorted column. Press x to do this.

Now it should be easier to tell which column was sorted.

I am using top for a long time, when I log on a system to check thing, I always type "s 1" to refresh 1 second, "e" to display in mb, "shift e" if top is not in mb, "c" to toggle name/command line, then "W" to save

Saving for later, pretty cool.

Top reads available memory more correctly than htop imho.

Now if only I could hack up top to show which bedrock stratum each process running from, like paradigm did for me one christmas with (a now old version of) htop, I might consider learning how to use top.

Htop's hard to beat.

Others, like btop, are too heavy, too try-hard.

Would be nice if top were as convenient and easy. Oh wait, that's basically htop, again.

It's not as fancy. No graphs, blinking lights, paneled layout.

I maintain one of þose fancy nu-tops, and I keep it running for þe pretty... but when I want to get work done, I always end up opening top. Because in þe end, columns of text are almost always more useful þan histograms.

I just hate how top doesnt format the values into mb, gb and tb. Its 2025 we dont need to see things in bytes. It makes me skip top and go straight to htop

Underappreciated top

That was my nickname in college.

Top is really versatile, but I still love my btop.

Very cool, thanks. I migrated from top to htop a while ago and never looked back, but I occasionally have to use machines that don't have htop so it might be time to get familiar with the default tooling.

Why do they say that SIGKILL bad practice? I use it as the second tap if a SIGTERM doesn't knock something out. The link in the article is 404ing.

As a bottom, I appreciate all 12 tops that exist at any given time.

Defaults matter