Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…

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    11 hours ago

    Wait… what?

    $ top --version
    top from procps-ng 4.0.5-dirty
    

    The following utilities are provided by procps:

    • free - Report the amounts of free and used memory in the system
    • hugetop - Report hugepage usage of processes and the system as a whole
    • kill - Send a signal to a process based on PID
    • pgrep - List processes based on name or other attributes
    • pkill - Send a signal to a process based on name or other attributes
    • pmap - Report the memory map of a process
    • ps - Report process information including PID and resource usage
    • pwdx - Report the current working directory of a process
    • skill - Obsolete version of pgrep/pkill
    • slabtop - Display kernel slab cache information in real time
    • snice - Renice a process
    • sysctl - Read or write kernel parameters at run-time
    • tload - Graphical representation of system load average
    • top - Dynamic real-time view of running processes
    • uptime - Display how long the system has been running
    • vmstat - Report virtual memory statistics
    • w - Report logged in users and what they are doing
    • watch - Execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

    https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

    Oh, so these guys manage top and a few other common utilities.