Monitoring Tools

Short list of the console monitoring tools to view CPU loading, Memory usage, frequency, disks input/output

tload provides a basic system load graph

tload

s-tui allows to monitor CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal

sudo pip install s-tui

stress tool to enable stress option in the s-tui

sudo apt-get install stress

s-tui

Display running precess list

top

htop interactive process viewer, it is more powerfull then classic top

wget https://github.com/wbenny/htop/files/573914/htop_2.0.2-2_armhf.deb.zip
unzip htop_2.0.2-2_armhf.deb.zip
sudo dpkg -i htop_2.0.2-2_armhf.deb

In case you want create new default config file

rm -rf ~/.config/htop/htoprc

htop

Monitoring disks input/output by processes with using iotop

Install iotop

wget http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/files/iotop-0.6.tar.gz
tar -C ~/ -xzf iotop-0.6.tar.gz
cd iotop-0.6
sudo python setup.py install

Run iotop for monitoring processes

sudo /usr/local/sbin/iotop -o -P -a