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sevg • today at 3:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Nowadays most of my processing happens on the GPU, so htop/top better evolve or become mostly irrelevant

If you’re a 3D rendering designer, an ML engineer or a crypto bro, then sure.

Here are the common workloads (for the average SWE on HN) that use CPU/RAM:

  - compilation/builds
  - language servers and IDEs
  - test suites
  - local containers
  - local databases
  - node tooling
  - browsers
  - data processing
  - compression and encryption
  - searching/indexing
Ok sure, top/htop is totally irrelevant now /s

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lukan • today at 7:09 PM

And your browser for instance might crash, if it runs out of gpu memory, which will surprise you if you only look for cpu/ram.

(Happened to me)