Bottom (btm) - A Comprehensive System Resource Monitor

hydn · October 24, 2023, 5:28pm

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Today, I learned about bottom – yet another command line process/system monitoring tool. I’m probably late to this one, however, I want to quickly share this tool with readers. Have you ever found yourself needing a detailed and real-time overview of system resource usage on your server or computer? Specifically for Linux, there are various… continue reading.

tmick · October 30, 2023, 5:08pm

Nifty tool where do I get it? It’s not in Debian’s Repos

hydn · October 30, 2023, 5:42pm

Oops! I thought I included a link: bottom: cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

Will update the article. Thanks!!

hydn · February 1, 2025, 1:10pm

Updating this article. it came full circle. Originally posted Oct 2023.

So since I moved from i3 to Gnome via full reinstall, I didn’t save dot files or notes about bottom. For the life of me, I just could not remember the name of this tool. Then noticed it here, not even remembering that I shared it. But glad I found this tool again, it’s pretty good!

It’s also very useful for monitoring temps, including GPU temps:

With all these local LLMs like DeepSeek and others, it comes in handy!