No matter what your system specification is, even if you are running a 12-core machine with hundreds of gigabytes of RAM or more, you will experience bottlenecks. And you will want to use a system monitor to see just what nefarious process is hogging your resources. This is the law. It’s also why there are so many resource monitors on offer for Linux distros. For most Linux users, Top is the de facto system monitor, and you can think of Btop as a super-charged variant.
Written in C++ and released under the Apache Licence 2.0, Btop itself boasts a rich pedigree. The project can trace its roots back to earlier iterations such as Bashtop and Bpytop, written respectively in Bash and
