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Levan
Asked: 2012-09-23 07:00:04 +0800 CST

System monitor in console mode

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Is there a way to start system monitor app, from the console ?? I am not talking about terminal. I am talking about Ctrl + Alt + F1 mode

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  1. Best Answer

    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 .

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  2. 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 Install conky-cli

    After installation, start it with conky command.

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  3. 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:

    enter image description here

    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

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  4. nmon from the eponymous package.

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