btop Command Examples

A resource monitor that shows information about the CPU, memory, disks, network and processes. A C++ version of bpytop. More information: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop.

• Start btop:

btop

• Start btop with the specified settings preset:

btop --preset {{0..9}}

• Start btop in TTY mode using 16 colors and TTY-friendly graph symbols:

btop --tty_on

• Start btop in 256-color mode instead of 24-bit color mode:

btop --low-color

• Set the update rate to 500 milliseconds:

btop --update 500

• Exit btop:

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• Display help:

btop {{[-h|--help]}}