You may already be quite familiar with a tool in your system called top that we discussed on this very corner back in our Tweaking Tux series. What top does is provide a graphical (ncurses-based) interface to your system's performance, load . . .
You may already be quite familiar with a tool in your system called top that we discussed on this very corner back in our Tweaking Tux series. What top does is provide a graphical (ncurses-based) interface to your system's performance, load average, CPU usage and so on. You can fire up top from the command line with top. ntop, on the other hand is completely different, so my comparison was silly. Actually, they are related in an important way, and a demonstration is the best approach. For starters, you will need to obtain the latest ntop package. You can find it at .

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