bb

bb is a minimalist process viewer written in Rust that delivers performance comparable to htop without the visual artifacts that can occur during screen redraws. It provides a clean, efficient interface for monitoring system processes with a focus on simplicity and correctness.

Key features include a toggleable process tree view, multi-column sorting by username, memory, CPU, and command line, and the ability to search and filter processes. You can also follow and highlight specific processes, terminate processes, and freeze/unfreeze the process list for stable viewing.

Basic usage

# Launch bb.
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# Keyboard shortcuts
# t — toggle process tree view
# f — freeze/unfreeze updates
# / — search/filter processes
# k — kill selected process
# s — sort by column