terminal
Ever wonder what's secretly hogging your computer's memory while everything crawls slow? There's a command-line tool built exactly for that.
top functions as the terminal's task manager, displaying all running processes along with their live CPU and memory usage, updating continuously so you can see in real time exactly what is consuming your computer's resources. It's the standard tool for diagnosing why a machine has suddenly slowed to a crawl, letting you spot a runaway process hogging memory or CPU immediately.
'pop' and 'hop' are simply rhyming, unrelated words with no function as terminal commands, included purely as playful distractors.
htop is a widely loved, more visually polished remake of top, offering color-coded bars and easier navigation while providing essentially the same real-time process information underneath.
terminal
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