Computer nerds, give me some advice.

[red02tj]

Not familiar with htop - should I install/use it?

htop is prettier +
It lets you sort, filter, and kill processes, and shows a process tree for hierarchy visualization.

 

[Zorba]

htop is prettier +
It lets you sort, filter, and kill processes, and shows a process tree for hierarchy visualization.

Just installed it - its interesting for sure. Looks like you can adjust "nice" with it as well. Thanx for the tip!

 

[Zorba]

The Mac has been wiped, and is for sale on eBay. I got all 3 monitors connected - then decided I wanted a 4th:

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I also have a little android tablet sitting around, I'm going to try get it to run as a 5th monitor. Maybe I'll just keep an instance of "top" running on it.

And I ended up buying a little tiny monitor for a 5th. Tiny yes, but still bigger than a smartphone!