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Which one do you prefer? htop, btop or top?
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Maybe you only use those tools on your desktop but on a cloud server with only 1-2GB of RAM you really don't want your monitoring to take up some significant percentage of that. Especially when you are debugging things like OOM conditions already.
Why are you using top instead of ps if you're worried about memory?
Containerise it, and you can debug locally
It's not what the person you're replying to is talking about. You're using a slightly better tool for a specific job, they're talking about people who won't use htop/btop on their own machine because BLOAT.
except it doesn't - both htop and btop use <30 MB
and if 20MB makes a difference, you don't need a different top, you need a different machine
"bloat bad" people are just obnoxious
If I was that memory- and cpu-constrained I would be using other tools such as memstat, iostat, and cpustat.