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A monitor of resources

32 mentions on Hacker News by 30 people: 7 stories, 25 comments · first 2021-09-23 · latest 2026-07-04

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  1. …* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778757 ( https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/ ) * https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728
    comment by JdeBP · 2026-07-04 · in Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
  2. …it - it seems to shows the Watts used as well :) (and network, and GPU, and disks,....) [0]: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by imrehg · 2026-07-04 · in Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
  3. …The fix is still pending being even made to the origin version. * https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728
    comment by JdeBP · 2026-07-04 · in FreeBSD ate my RAM
  4. …my system for any weirdness, but I ended up ending the practice as btop leaks memory like crazy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/912 It wasn't uncommon for gigabytes of ram getting taken up after a day or two of uptime
    comment by trevortheblack · 2025-11-08 · in Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface
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    Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface
    story by vismit2000 · 2025-11-08 · 118 comments
  6. I personally prefer btop [0] over gtop. Not written in js is kind of a plus. [0] https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by h4ch1 · 2025-10-14 · in Modern Linux tools
  7. …experience with a very pleasing UI. Screenshots summarize this better than I can [0]. - [0] https://github.com/aristocratos/btop?tab=readme-ov-file#scre...
    comment by haswell · 2025-03-26 · in You might want to stop running atop
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    btop++ – C++ version/continuation of bashtop and bpytop
    story by indigodaddy · 2025-01-16 · 0 comments
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    Btop: A Monitor of Resources
    story by bjourne · 2024-12-25 · 0 comments
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    btop: A Monitor of Resources
    story by tosh · 2024-11-21 · 0 comments
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    Btop adds initial Intel GPU support
    story by notorandit · 2024-09-22 · 1 comment
  12. If anyone want to see an example of graphing use the braille characters (I think) look at btop https://github.com/aristocratos/btop Speaking of misaligned characters: an upgrade a few months back in some thing (font, terminal, or renderer)…
    comment by Am4TIfIsER0ppos · 2024-08-27 · in The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)
  13. …checking the slide... Nope, that's just the default view for btop++ (first screenshot in the link) https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by ffsm8 · 2024-08-11 · in Black Hat 2024: Secure Shells in Shambles [pdf]
  14. …you’re into this sort of thing: Example: https://terminalroot.com.br/assets/img/cpp/btop.png Repo: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by gorgoiler · 2024-07-28 · in An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
  15. You may be interested in btop: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by withinboredom · 2024-06-30 · in Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters
  16. I install BTOP++ https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by pixxel · 2024-06-28 · in Htop explained – everything you can see in htop on Linux (2019)
  17. For those like me that were wondering what the resource monitor shown in the photo is, it's btop. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by duiker101 · 2024-06-26 · in Remote shell to a Raspberry Pi at 39,000 ft
  18. You can get most of the info also on btop ( https://github.com/aristocratos/btop ), just without the ANE and annotating the cores. It's cross platform though.
    comment by viraptor · 2024-05-22 · in mactop
  19. …https://vifm.info/gallery.shtml * `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop?tab=readme-ov-file#main...
    comment by colordrops · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
  20. I don’t know exactly but I personally use Btop yo monitor resources https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by tamimio · 2024-03-27 · in AMD EPYC 7C13 Is a Surprisingly Cheap and Good CPU
  21. btop++ is also worth a look if you like bottom, another take on a modern htop. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by petepete · 2024-03-13 · in Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
  22. I mean mainly things like this: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/blob/main/Img/alt.png Great work, it looks amazing! But what's the point of going through all the pain of rendering graphs in text? At that point, give me an actual…
    comment by dale_glass · 2024-03-02 · in Text UIs != Terminal UIs
  23. I recommend btop these days ( https://github.com/aristocratos/btop )
    comment by withinboredom · 2023-10-10 · in Linux ate my RAM (2009)
  24. …with space and using every pixel possible. btop[1] is a great example imo — one of the best. [1]: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by lazzlazzlazz · 2023-09-21 · in Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal
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    Btop++: Resource monitor for processor, memory, disks, network and processes
    story by ingve · 2023-06-25 · 12 comments
  26. …a bit too much on the fancy side, but it doesn't pretend to be something it isn't) check btop: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by badsectoracula · 2023-03-12 · in Textual is a beautiful Terminal User Interface library in Python
  27. …out Btop or erdtree as well. https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://github.com/helix-editor/helix https://github.com/aristocratos/btop https://github.com/solidiquis/erdtree
    comment by jiripospisil · 2023-02-27 · in Ask HN: macOS apps/utils you can’t live without?
  28. …and it already exists on the repos of every major distro. Where the only uses snap comes from? https://github.com/aristocratos/btop#installation
    comment by forgotpwd16 · 2022-12-08 · in Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
  29. …jacked. So I finally made the switch to tmux and oh-my-tmux. htop is good, but check out btop. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
    comment by linsomniac · 2022-02-15 · in SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient
  30. The same author has a newer version of the utility called btop (written in C++): https://github.com/aristocratos/btop .
    comment by taneliv · 2021-12-05 · in Bpytop: Linux/macOS/FreeBSD resource monitor
  31. …the AUR. Its also concerning there is btop[0] and bpytop[1]? I don't understand the difference. [0] https://github.com/aristocratos/btop [1] https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop
    comment by Naac · 2021-09-25 · in Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
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    Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
    story by feross · 2021-09-23 · 65 comments