System monitor in console mode
you can use htop
also and its more featured than top .
if you want to test it , then you have install it with
sudo apt-get install htop
after that type htop
.
You can try the top
command to have a system monitor in console. It will display the CPU usage for the processes running in your machine.
Another alternative is conky-cli. You can install it with the command
sudo apt-get install conky-cli
or using the link conky-cli
After installation, start it with conky
command.
One option is to use dstat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dstat
then run it by simply entering
dstat
to get this default output which updates every second and provides column headers with every screenful:
The advantage dstat
has over htop
is the same that System-Monitor
has, namely that it shows trends.
dstat
is very versatile. Here is an article that explains the command line switches and shows some of the advanced options:
5+ “dstat” Command Usage Examples in Linux
nmon
from the eponymous package.