Linux Best Open Source Terminal Tools (part2)
collectl – Collects data that describes the current system status.
glances – A cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool
Glances is a free (LGPL) cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space, ideally to fit in a classical 80×24 terminal or higher to have additional information.
NetHogs – a small ’net top’ tool
NetHogs is a small ’net top’ tool.
Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most such tools do, it groups bandwidth by process – and does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded.
So if there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this, and if it’s some kind of spinning process, kill it.
