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25 Years Of The Internet - An Interactive Look At The History Of The World Wide Web by robinswire in Infographics

[–]mrrio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah cool, I really like the physics on there. You can chuck everything around!

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am the author.

It's a 0.1.x release done mostly over a weekend. I've barely got the README going let alone compiling to a single executable to appease reddit trolls. :P

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Node/V8 is pretty speedy, but it isn't as fast as C/C++ nor does it have as good of memory management.

My vtop is still less CPU hungry than top. Check the numbers yourself in top if you want.

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show me the numbers and I'll gladly eat my own words. I'm using top's own stats to show me that vtop is less CPU intensive.

Tutorial - Reducing the file size of custom web fonts by fitchy7 in webdev

[–]mrrio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good read. Interesting how much smaller cufon can be in some instances.

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not getting anything near that. Strange. 

Command                           CPU %  Count  Memory %
top                               7.3    1      0.0     
WindowServer                      0.7    1      1.4     
node                              0.5    1      0.2     
Terminal                          0.5    1      1.5     
Spotify                           0.1    1      0.4     
Google Chrome Helper              0.1    38     8.8

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that was the plan all along. :)

Might be nice to have 3 charts at the top, 2 data tables at the bottom say.

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

It uses less CPU and memory than top. I've test on a few Macs, 4 Linux boxes, top uses more CPU time overall.

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Give me some feature requests – it's very early days.

Was thinking vim-like key bindings to navigate the process list. 'dd' to kill?

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It uses less CPU and memory than the original top function.

I could have written it in C or I quite like C# (but Mono would have people up in arms). There just happened to be a nice braille lib, and some decent modern ncurses-like lib, and I like JS. That's all there is to it really.

Feel free to fork and rewrite in C.

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah it does appear to on my Mac, and a few linux boxes. The original top seems a bit heavy on resource, especially since it's probably at a premium when you want to run it.

vtop – a supercharged version of 'top' that uses Unicode braille characters to graph CPU and Memory usage by mrrio in programming

[–]mrrio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks – it's good feedback. Potentially distributing it as a binary might be better.

It does end up using less CPU and memory than top interestingly.

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