[ck2]

Is it on yum for centos?

I was playing with htop but it's not really any better than top.

[spudlyo]

It might surprise you just how full featured and useful plain ole Linux top really is. I made a YouTube video based on a training session I did at my old job on how to configure top to show you a lot more interesting things than it does by default.

Shameless plug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKRsLj_Jhg

[sciurus]

Try atop. There's an overview at https://lwn.net/Articles/387202/

It's available through the EPEL yum repository http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/atop....

[clinth]

Not in its documentation, but atop requires root. If you're on a VM somewhere, you might be happier with htop or glances.

[sciurus]

You can run atop without root, it just won't use process accounting so you may miss some processes (but so would htop and glances).

I'm not sure what being on a VM has to do with anything.

It would be nice if there was a way (e.g. a command-line argument or atoprc setting) to disable the ability to kill processes from within atop; then it would be safer for an admin to make it executable as root by regular users.

[clinth]

Apologies, I based my comment on atop's README:

    For interactive use it is sufficient to install ATOP with the command (as root):

        make install

I wouldn't have guessed the reference to root was optional! Thanks for the pointer.