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title	category	tagline	source	package	command	code
btop	Desktop and system	A colorful terminal monitor for CPU, memory, disks, network and processes.	pacman	btop	btop	https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

What it is

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.

Why it's here

• The whole machine at a glance. See what's busy without opening several tools.
• Find the culprit. Sort processes by CPU or memory and stop the one misbehaving.
• Works over SSH. Check a remote machine from your terminal.

On CoreDesktop

btop is installed from pacman, with nothing extra configured. Run btop in a terminal and press q to quit. update keeps it current.