lsof!

The free, open-source, Unix administrative tool lsof (for LiSt Open Files displays information about files open to Unix processes. It runs on many Unix dialects, including FreeBSD, and its home site ftp server is at lsof.itap.purdue.edu. * Get the lsof README file. ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/README * Get the lsof FAQ. ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/FAQ * Get the bzip2'd UNIX tar file. ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof.tar.bz2 * Get the gzip'd UNIX tar file. ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof.tar.gz * Get the compressed UNIX tar file. ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof.tar.Z * List the lsof files e.g, to find the current version. ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof **!!!NOTICE!!!*

lsof alternatives

  • Resource Monitor

  • Resource Monitor is a system application in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is used to view information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, and network) and software (file handles and modules) resources in real time. Resource Monitor is available in Windows Vista and onwards only (In Windows Vista, it is known as Reliability and Performance Monitor). Resource Monitor can be launched by executing resmon.exe (perfmon.exe in Windows Vista). It was also on Windows 95, 95 OSR, 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE, ME, and NT. ยป

    tags: hardware-monitoring performance-monitoring system-information
  • Sysdig

  • Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce.With a little Lua cherry on top.

    tags: app-container-monitoring application-monitoring container-monitoring cpu-monitoring it-management
  • vtop

  • vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

    tags: hardware-monitoring process-list process-management process-monitoring process-viewer
  • Glsof

  • Glsof is two separate utilities (Queries & FileMonitor) to the command line utility Lsof by Vic Abell. Both applications are written in Java. Another fundamental requirement is the command line Lsof that has to be installed on your system. Lsof is supported by most of the Unix/Linux systems including Mac Os X.

    tags: taskmanager process-list process-monitoring process-viewer