For laptops I HIGHLY suggest Powertop, it's quite useful for extending battery life. Combined with TLP/TLPUI. It was a requirement for my ThinkPad, battery life is so much better after configuring TLP.
@@123sleepygamer Allows for better management of processor-related power consumption, doing things like managing the CPU frequency scaling and governor that by default TLP doesn't do (well)
I have been using linux probably like 10 years ago and i like a fact, that you learnt it once and its preaty much same for another ten years. With windows, you have to move every single release to keep track of it. Thanks for cool videos! I really apriciate it! good job
Keep it up with this fantastic short-style of demonstrations - they can add so much value to people who are new to Linux. Don't stop with your advocacy for privacy and control of our own devices and data, that is also immensely valuable.
Fascinating! On sorting by CPU%, I find that 99% of the time, 99% of my CPU was being eaten by "baloo_file_extractor". On researching that, I find that it's part of KDE-Plasma's "file indexing" system. I don't need that, because I use descriptive file names and elaborate directory trees rather than using the OS's built-in "search" feature. (I think I used my OS's "search" features exactly 0 times in all of 2022.) So I went into settings and turned-off "file indexing". My average CPU use went from 99% to 1%, and my CPU's temperature, which has been holding steady on this computer at about 65℃ (idle) to 75℃ (watching videos) to 85℃ (when rendering videos in a video editor) for the past few months, instantly plummeted to 36℃ idle!!! So, yeah, in just 2 minutes of usage, "Htop" showed me how to drastically improve my computer's functionality and dramatically reduce CPU temperature.
I personally really like btop.It's a bit more interesting, graphically, and has things like task filtering. I just checked and it even works directly under a TTY so Iike it.
That's a very cool video idea. Most people use htop but it has so many features you never really notice. I randomly noticed I could customize the bar layouts after like a decade. But I do like GUI taskmanagers for their resource consumption graphs (bashtop is too slow). Glances would also be great if it was faster, I like all the sensors stuff. 10:46 F9,9 - As intuitive as it needs to be in a situation that requires it.
Thank you for touching on such neat topics! As someone who is learning linux and planning to completely switch to it eventually, this really helps me out.
Happy to say that I've switched to linux as of today. I'm typing this on my new machine :) I also bought a Pine 64 and have been using it for projects thanks to you. That thing rocks!
KILLALL(1) User Commands KILLALL(1) DESCRIPTION killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent.
@@keyboardwarrior6296 damn. Kind of a misnomer if it's a command call kill all and it doesn't use SIGKILL. Oh well, I guess I was killing processes properly!
Bro, this was really useful. I had it installed but was overwhelmed with all the options and I don’t know what to do and I rarely used it. Now I can become a more powerful user with your video. Thank you so much.
I LOVE htop because it is GREAT software. You can tell that much thought went into every small detail. I dont know it this is the OCD of 1 person or small contributions of many, but the end result is fantastic.
htop is very, very useful. I use it a lot when I develop with C/CPP, just because it's easy to read for my eyes. For anyone starting with Linux, top will be your best friend.
I love HTOP so much and I have tried to learn everything about it so I have low expectations about learning anything but I believe it will still be an amazing video… I will watch it now and post my impression in a reply to my message hopefully I can learn one thing or two 😅❤🎉
11:18 Time to start up *Kill -9* by Monzy. Lyrics for anyone who doesn’t know: I guess I'll have to shut you down for good this time, Already tried a SIGQUIT, so now it's KILL DASH 9. You gotta learn when it's time for your thread to yield; It shoulda slept; instead you stepped and now your fate is sealed. I'll take your process off the run queue without even asking 'Cause my flow is like reentrant and preemptive multitasking. Your sad rhymes are spinnin' like you're in a deadlock, You're like a synchronous sock that don't know when to block; So I pull out my keyboard and I pull out my glock, And I dismount your girl and I mount /proc And I've got your fuckin pid and the bottom line Is that you best not front or else it's KILL DASH NINE. KILL DASH NINE, No more CPU time. I run KILL DASH NINE, And your process is mine. I run KILL DASH NINE, 'Cause it's MY time to shine So don't step outta line or else it's KILL DASH NINE! See it ain't about the Benjamins or Pentiums or Athlons, But you rappin' 50 meters while I'm spittin' in decathlons. Your shit's old and busted, mine's the new hotness; You're like CLR and I'm like CLRS. You're running csh and my shell is bash, You're the tertiary storage; I'm the L1 cache. I'm a web crawling spider; you an Internet mosquito; You thought the 7-layer model referred to a burrito. You're a dialup connection; I'm a gigabit LAN. I last a mythical man-month; you a one-minute man. It's like I'm running Thunderbird and you're still stuck with Pine, Which is why I think it's time for me to KILL DASH NINE. Yeah it's KILL DASH NINE No more CPU time. 'Cause it's KILL DASH NINE, And your process is mine. I said KILL DASH NINE 'Cause it's my time to shine, So don't step outta line or else it's KILL DASH NINE! My posse throws down like leaky bucket regulators; I was coding shit in MIPS while you were playing Space Invaders. With my finger on the trigger I run ./configure Yo, this package is big, but MY package is bigger. I roll my weed with Zig Zag while I zag-zig splay, And I do a bounds check before I write to an array. I'm a loc'd out baller writing KLOCS a day, 'Cause it's publish or perish, fool, what can I say? I'm 26 now, will I live to see 28? Some days I wonder if I'll survive to graduate. But hey, that's just fine, I won't ever resign, And if fools try to step then it's KILL DASH NINE! Yeah it's KILL DASH NINE, From my command line It's KILL DASH NINE Sending chills down your spine, I said KILL DASH NINE, 'Cause it's my time to shine, So don't step outta line or else it's KILL DASH NINE! fs sa rlidwka I'll chown your home and take your access away Comin' straight outta Stanford, ain't nobody tougher, Control-X, Control-C, I'll discard your fuckin' buffer. You're outside your scope, son, close them curly brackets, 'Cause I drop punk-ass bitches like a modem drops packets. Dump your motherfucking core, and trace your stack 'Cause where your ass is going, there won't be no callback. See my style is divine and my code is sublime, My career's in a climb and yours is in a decline. I'll write a pound-define and assign you as mine, So refine those sad rhymes or remove your plus signs, Or it's KILL DASH NINE, No more CPU time, 'Cause it's KILL DASH NINE, And your process is mine, I said KILL DASH NINE 'Cause it's my time to shine, Bitch you stepped outta line and now it's KILL DASH NINE!
top was okay, htop was great, but then our Aussie Linux RU-vidr Brodie showed me btop and I was sold. Why do I love btop? Just the nice CPU usage graphs, temperature readout is epic data to go fetch, and the ZFS support for IO means it is the best system performance at a glance tool I have.
Just changed my College Thinkpad from windows to Debian 11, had to setup some things that were done automatically in windows, but it has been nice so far. I loved the customization, btw can I use LxQt with gdm3 as a session manager without problems? It worked perfectly so far, but I read it could cause some problems
I personally use btop these days (aka btop++) because of how heckin' polished it is. It used to be called bashtop, then later it became bpytop, and now it's just btop. There are lots of "top" programs, and while I've tried lots of them, I know I haven't tried all of them.
Nice introduction, had to immediately download it and try it! Just found out about nala, its a front end version of apt, and it really has some nice to have features like update history and so on. Would be cool if you could make a video about it since i barely see it talked about! :)
I was hoping you would explain the other columns. I have a harder time understanding what those do like RES and SHR and why my memory bar is filled to the end but only half of the memory is in use
0:26 Anyone care to explain what the green bell pepper represents? (Why Stallman is wearing a Teddy Bear costume might warrant another question, but that didn't seem quite as unusual.)
I don't get why people talk shit about Htop. It's so much more readable than Top. I'm pretty sure it's more capable, but TBH I never explored the capabilities of Top as in-depth, because the UI simply is not as user-friendly. I use BpyTOP or Glances for some situations. But most of the time Htop is all I need.
Remember that viewers cannot see what key you are pressing on your keyboard. Maybe I missed it, but when you were searching you did something and the search went away and the line was highlighted. What key was that? Enter? ESC? slash again?
"But it's actually much better than a lot of the GUI task managers that you see on Windows or even the ones that are included in many of the just-works Linux distros." Since when does Linux have any GUI task manager that can hold a candle to the default one Windows ships, let alone include them? The best one I know of (thanks Brodie!) is System Monitoring Center which tries (and fails) to recreate Windows' task manager, but it isn't included in any distro by default.
On windows. Task manager used to be the single most powerful application. It ran in Kernel level 0, as long as there was ram, it would work. if it crashed, you just open a newone and the oldone will be killed. But over time some of the power is taken away, because people were doing stupid thing with it. Just because taskmanager could kill ANY program running, does not mean you should do it.
Interesting. But why is Mr. Stallman wearing a bear suit and hugging a green chili pepper at 0:24? That seems like a very unlikely pair of things for him to be doing. More like something I'd expect from Jacob Collier.
low idle memory usage doesnt matter much compared to windows since windows reserves a percentage of your ram so if you have like 512GB of ram its gonna show idle ussage of like 64gb+ but it doesnt mean you dont have access to that ram anymore
