When comparing htop vs proced (Emacs), the Slant community recommends htop for most people. In the question“What are the best process control tools?” htop is ranked 1st while proced (Emacs) is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose htop is:
htop is a terminal application which displays all running processes in an ordered list view. There's just one view of htop which displays everything. This avoids needless navigation through different views which usually is very time consuming.
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Pros
Pro Important information all in one place
htop is a terminal application which displays all running processes in an ordered list view. There's just one view of htop which displays everything. This avoids needless navigation through different views which usually is very time consuming.
Pro Easily kill any process
You can scroll down to any process that you want to kill and just press F9
or k
to kill it.
Pro Colorful
Pro Has process tree view
Toggle by F5
or t
.
Pro Available out of the box for Emacs 23+
Pro Works on Windows
Cons
Con Horrible GUI
Con No network activity details
Con Lacks VIM bindings
Navigation is difficult if you have VIM bindings in your muscle memory.
Con CPU overhead
Con Requires emacs
Con Does not work on Darwin
Unfortunately, `proced' doesn't yet work on Darwin (i.e., OS X, GNUStep, etc.) in stable versions of Emacs. See here for the effort to get it working on Darwin.