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btop

Last modified by Sirius Rayner-Karlsson on 2025/01/23 07:15

Most people that use Linux are familiar with commands like iostat, sar and top. Useful tools to review what is happening on the system and aid in performance tuning. But what if you are just wanting an overview of what is going on without having to cobble together a script that pulls the data together and spits it out on the screen?

Enter btop. A all-in-one tool that will give you a single pane overview, and all of that in just 1.8MiB.

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The way to build it is simple, providing you have the development kit installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/aristocratos/btop.git
$ cd btop
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo make setcap

And you are done. Enjoy!