Or is it only me?
topimmediately upon starting:
Well it does make sense that the CPU has to work a bit when loading a new program.
All four cores at 100%? We don’t see that kind of spike when we open some other application right? Is it the experience of everyone? Or am I wrong in this?
That first data point is simply invalid. Ignore it. Monitoring software usually report some kind of statistic (mean, median, min/max, etc) taken from measurements over a period of time instead of the instantaneous value when the report is updated. But they can’t do that for the first data point when the application is launched because there’s no time period over which to measure it.
I paid for all the cores, I’m gonna use all the cores!
Top revs the engine as a test /s
It’s like when the boss walks in so everybody becomes visibly busy. Never want to look like you could be the couple pennies shaved off the budget when management bonus calculation time comes around.
Absolutely. That’s why race to idle is a thing. As soon as the CPU is fed cycles it races to complete the task as quickly as possible. When the program first launches and starts monitoring the only thing it knows is that it was just doing something. It hasn’t had a change to not do something. It’s now completed its race and now it’s able to relax for a second and idle.
I mean, maybe. Imagine averaging the usage over a single instruction cycle. Whatever ran that instruction is using 100% of the processor for that time period.
TOP averages out readings from the last few seconds. If there aren’t enough samples the displayed values can be… off
btopftwbtopis nice and I use it sometimes; buthtop, my beloved, doesn’t complain about the screen size being too small. And it’s more visual for me anyways.yeah
htopis useful on a phonebtw to format inline code blocks, put a single backtick on each side of the code, like this:
btop.How dare you call my laptop a “phone” /s
(btop on the left)
Also, thanks for the tip, I just used voyager’s formatting cause I was on my phone :'D
I like the color scheme of the buttons in the top right
Can’t wait for zztop
Wasn’t
htopabandoned?It was, but it’s been back for some years now
Oh neat, thanks! I didn’t hear that someone took it up again.
glancesBtwbtmftwIt runs on Windows
Same happens opening Windows Task Manager, my older server rig used to lock up frequently, stalling programs like Home Assistant, and the only thing I had to do to fix it was remote in and open Task Manager. CPU usage dropped to between 70% and 30%.
This, incidentally, was why I was convinced I needed better hardware for a dedicated Proxmox rig. I was very wrong. With Windows, I can barely run three services (HA, AgentDVR, Emby) alongside their stupid NTFS scan and antivirus. With Proxmox I can run 20 services with no issue. CPU is usually 60%-70% with everything.
I’m running like 18 machines inside of hyper-v and don’t have that problem. Were you using a consumer version of windows or something?
Yes aha, Windows 10 Home, 22H2 update. Only Windows OS I owned and this was before I tried Linux
Yeah that explains it lol. Fwiw, if you ever want to try windows as a hypervisor again, server editions can run for 180 days on a trial license and you can buy legit product keys from dodgy resellers online for like $10. I’d go that route for running any kind of real services.
If you are going to use a illegal copy of Windows don’t spend $10
Just use the mass grave scripts
They’re MSDN keys, so they’re valid and never stop working. That’s worth $10 to me. It’s not illegal for me to buy them. It’s illegal for the Polish dude to sell them.
Same, but if you haven’t aliased top to btm --battery you’re not really living
You guys hate GUI, don’t you?
No but sometimes you’re in a terminal anyway and its trivial to pop open a new tab and run an arbitrary command. It isn’t that we hate GUI; TUI/CLI is just objectively faster for a lot of things.
No, but I don’t see the value in using the GUI for something that can be gotten with less complexity and overhead.
You are allowed to use GUI and CLI tools
