Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…
Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…
Wait… what?
$ top --version top from procps-ng 4.0.5-dirtyOh, so these guys manage
topand a few other common utilities.No, these guys manage a version of
top. There are dozens of versions. Every major OS has their owntop, or an equivalent. I bet there are even linux distros that don’t use this version oftop.Oooooh, ok. TIL.
At least Arch and Debian seem to use
top from procps-ng. Good to know.