Comments on: How to Reduce RAM & CPU Usage on Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 05:05:08 +0000

In reply to John Piers Cilliers. @John, Thanks for your suggestion! I’ve already covered Atop in a dedicated article on Tecmint, where I go in-depth on its features, installation, and usage. You can check it out here: [How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Logging Activity in Linux]

By: Jalal Hajigholamali

Jalal Hajigholamali — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:11:12 +0000

Hi, Very useful article. Thanks a lot.

By: David

David — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:21:02 +0000

I have just replaced my old desktop with a mini. Incredible improvement in performance. Makes life bearable again and frees up lots of floor space.

By: John Piers Cilliers

John Piers Cilliers — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:51:10 +0000

Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor for Linux that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes (even if processes have finished during the interval), daily logging of system and process activity for long-term analysis, highlighting overloaded system resources by using colors, etcetera.

Have a look on Github, for me, it’s by far the best one as regards Linux System monitoring.

https://github.com/Atoptool/atop

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:40:11 +0000

In reply to Ajrun Afsana.

@Ajrun,

htop is great, but there are definitely more options to explore. Let me know if you try any new ones and how they work for you!