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title: "btop"
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category: "Desktop and system"
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tagline: "A colorful terminal monitor for CPU, memory, disks, network and processes."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "btop"
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command: "btop"
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code: "https://github.com/aristocratos/btop"
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---
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## What it is
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btop is a resource monitor for the terminal. It shows CPU use per core, memory, disk and network activity as live graphs, with a sortable, filterable list of processes underneath that you can inspect or stop. It works with the mouse as well as the keyboard.
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## Why it's here
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- **The whole machine at a glance.** See what's busy without opening several tools.
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- **Find the culprit.** Sort processes by CPU or memory and stop the one misbehaving.
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- **Works over SSH.** Check a remote machine from your terminal.
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## On CoreDesktop
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btop is installed from pacman, with nothing extra configured. Run `btop` in a terminal and press <kbd>q</kbd> to quit. `update` keeps it current.
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