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by spirit555 3788 days ago
Ok so I know of and have tried top, atop, htop, ntop. What else is out there??
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iftop for network stuff

"iotop -o" is also useful, for seeing if that process is actually writing to disk

powertop is a great utility for improving laptop battery life - it highlights the things you need to adjust to reduce power usage

pgtop for postgres, but I've never used it

not "top"-branded, but lnav is an ncurses-based log navigator that's partially comprised of magic

and, of course, there are many varieties of "desktop" cough

systemd-cgtop lists CPU usage of systemd units instead of processes.
slabtop if you're into kernel development and low level debugging
dstat, the best one imho. Can replace quite a few of the other tools.
tfa mentions vtop, which is a node.js version of top
iotop