mactop

mactop is a terminal-based monitoring tool "top" designed to display real-time metrics for Apple Silicon chips. It provides a simple and efficient way to monitor CPU and GPU usage, E-Cores and P-Cores, power consumption, and other system metrics directly from your terminal!

Compatibility

• Apple Silicon Only (ARM64)
• macOS Monterey 12.3+

Features

• Apple Silicon Monitor Top written in Go Lang (Under 1,000 lines of code)
• Real-time CPU and GPU power usage display.
• Detailed metrics for different CPU clusters (E-Cores and P-Cores).
• Memory usage and swap information.
• Network usage information
• Disk Activity Read/Write
• Easy-to-read terminal UI
• Two layouts: default and alternative
• Support for all Apple Silicon models.

Install via Homebrew

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brew tap context-labs/mactop https://github.com/context-labs/mactop

brew install mactop

sudo mactop

Installation

To install mactop, follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have Go installed on your machine. If not, you can install it by following the instructions here: Go Installation Guide.

2. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/context-labs/mactop.git
   cd mactop

3. Build the application:

   go build

4. Run the application:

   sudo ./mactop

Usage

After installation, you can start mactop by simply running:

sudo ./mactop

sudo is required to run mactop

Use the following keys to interact with the application:

• q: Quit the application.
• r: Refresh the UI data manually.
• l: Toggle the current layout.

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork mactop
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

What does mactop use to get real-time data?

• sysctl: For CPU model information
• system_profiler: For GPU Core Count
• psutil: For memory and swap metrics
• powermetrics: For majority of CPU, GPU, Network, and Disk metrics

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Carsen Klock - @carsenklock

Project Link: https://github.com/context-labs/mactop

Acknowledgements

• termui for the terminal UI framework.
• gopsutil for system memory monitoring.
• asitop for the original inspiration!