My A–Z toolbox: htop

This is the eighth post in my A-Z Toolbox series, in which I’m listing tools I use down the alphabet for no logical or practical reason. Beans. The letter H is a bit thin compared to previous letters, but htop was an easy winner. It’s an interactive process viewer similar to top(1), but with colour, bar graphs for CPU and RAM usage, and easy to use filters. I’m a fan of running OSs stock, but htop has long become essential for BSD and Linux machines. Others include: HAST on FreeBSD, which I considered essential for many years before moving to warm replication with ZFS send/receive. HAST is similar to DRBD, and allows you to have replicated network storage. handbrake-cli, the command line version of the Handbrake DVD ripping tool. By far the bulk of our storage at home is used for a local media server for music and movies, and we have Handbrake to thank for making this easy. Merci! The Hitachi Drive Fitness Test and Hitachi Drive Feature Tool for DOS. Yes, DOS! I have a side gig where…

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