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Super system monitor

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Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in Delhi and an avid Arch user.

S At a minimum, they provide a quick look at active processes and CPU and memory utilization. Some tools, however, go a step further and also provide information about disk and network I/O. More often than not, the system monitor also provides colourful graphs and even lets you sort or kill processes. If you think all this is only possible with graphical utilities, you’re in for a surprise.

Written in Rust and released under the MIT licence, is a rather robust system monitor with all the features listed above, and more. You won’t find it in the software repositories of most distros, the exception being Arch Linux, but the project publishes a Deb binary for Ubuntu, Debian and other derivative distros, in addition to precompiledcan

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