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btop vs psutil

A side-by-side look at btop and psutil. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

btop

btop

System & Hardware

btop is a system monitoring utility for Linux systems, providing an interactive interface to monitor CPU/RAM/swap usage, network activity, disk I/O, and more in real time.

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psutil

psutil

Development

psutil is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization in Python. It allows you to easily monitor CPU, memory, disk, network and other system resources.

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