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The famous Unix admin utility known as Top has many imitators. We take a look at some of the top Top tools.
Peak loads, I/ O issues, and inexplicable system behavior pose problems for administrators day after day. Why is the database using so much swap memory? Why is my laptop
battery discharging so quickly? The legacy command-line utility Top specializes in problems like these.
Top was the first in a long line of selfrefreshing resource monitoring tools. Now numerous imitators vie for the administrator’s attention. With the help of a Linux Magazine jury, we tried out dozens of wannabe top performers, and now proudly present the top 10 Tops.
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