

(TL DR: swapping is moving an entire process out to disk paging is moving just specific pages out to disk, not an entire process. What do you think about vtop? Let us know via the comment form below.In a prior blog post, I talked about what virtual memory is, the difference between swapping and paging, and why it matters. Vtop has many features in the pipeline including measuring server requests, log entries, etc. To get vtop help, run the following command. You can also set vtop to terminate after some seconds, using the -quit-after option as shown. In this example, 20 milliseconds is equivalent to 0.02 seconds: # vtop -update-interval 20 To set the interval between updates (in milliseconds), use the -update-interval. You can choose any of the available themes (acid, becca, brew, certs, dark, gooey, gruvbox, monokai, nord, parallax, seti, and wizard), for example: # vtop -theme wizard To change the color scheme, use the -theme switch.


The following are vtop keyboard shortcuts, pressing: # sudo npm install -g vtopĪfter installing vtop, run the following command to launch it. Use the sudo command if necessary to gain root privileges for package installation. Once your system has Node.js and NPM installed, run the following command to install vtop.

