Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Ctop Alternatives
Ctop is described as 'Top-like interface for container metrics. ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers as well as a single container view for inspecting a specific container' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ctop for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Docker apps. The best Ctop alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like Ctop are htop, System Informer, Mission Center and Stacer.
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Linux process explorer, behaves the same as the windows process explorer from Mark Russinovich.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
CPU Usage Limiter for Linux - cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access key system statistics.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon) — is a shell daemon created to manage processes' IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications (anyone may add their own rule via github's pull request mechanism). It's mainly for desktop usage.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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