[vanc_cefepime]

Linux newbie here. Jumped into the Linux world after getting tired of Microsoft's BS with Win 11. Running Linux mint on my laptop and desktop. Looks like 'atop' is not installed by default, but regular 'top'. Anyone know which distros I should be worried about that have it? Also I have been dabbling with proxmox, I checked and looks like 'top' is the default there too.

[grayfaced]

You're probably not running either unless you know what they are. Top is an equivalent of windows taskmanager, most often to used identify "top" processes using memory/cpu (and other resources) and only ran briefly. Atop is a different long-running version used to create logs of the same data to understand trends.

[cesarb]

> [...] and only ran briefly. Atop is a different long-running version used to create logs of the same data to understand trends.

atop is also normally only ran briefly. It has an optional mode (enabled by default in some, but not all distributions) in which it runs as a service and saves a snapshot of the system state every few seconds; atop can read and show these snapshots when ran briefly.