nnn in action! (click to play video)
-`nnn` is probably the [fastest and most resource-sensitive](#memory-usage) file manager you have ever used. It integrates seamlessly with your DE and favourite GUI utilities, has a unique [navigate-as-you-type](#navigate-as-you-type-mode) mode with auto-select, disk usage analyzer mode, bookmarks, contexts, application launcher, familiar navigation shortcuts, subshell spawning and much more. +`nnn` is probably the [fastest and most resource-sensitive](#comparison) file manager you have ever used. It integrates seamlessly with your DE and favourite GUI utilities, has a unique [navigate-as-you-type](#navigate-as-you-type-mode) mode with auto-select, disk usage analyzer mode, bookmarks, contexts, application launcher, familiar navigation shortcuts, subshell spawning and much more. [Integrate utilities](https://github.com/jarun/nnn#sample-scripts) like sxiv or fzy easily, or use it as a [(neo)vim plugin](https://github.com/jarun/nnn#neovim-plugin); `nnn` supports as many scripts as you need! @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ It runs on Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, Cygwin, Linux subsystem for Windows and T #### TABLE OF CONTENTS - [Features](#features) -- [Memory usage](#memory-usage) +- [Comparison](#comparison) - [Installation](#installation) - [Dependencies](#dependencies) - [From a package manager](#from-a-package-manager) @@ -117,23 +117,17 @@ It runs on Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, Cygwin, Linux subsystem for Windows and T - Highly optimized, static analysis integrated code - Available on many distros -#### MEMORY USAGE +#### COMPARISON -`nnn` vs. ncdu memory usage in disk usage analyzer mode (400K files on disk): +Stripped binary (or script) size and memory usage of `nnn` and some other similar utilities while viewing a directory with 13.5K files (0 directories), sorted by size/du:- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND - 5034 vaio 20 0 71628 59932 2412 S 0.0 0.7 0:01.22 ncdu / - 4949 vaio 20 0 14812 3616 2560 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.83 nnn -S / -- -`nnn` vs. midnight commander vs. ranger memory usage while viewing a directory with 13.5K files, sorted by size: - -
- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND -31885 vaio 20 0 139720 91220 8460 S 0.0 1.1 0:02.96 /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin/ranger -30108 vaio 20 0 72152 12468 7336 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.06 mc -30168 vaio 20 0 16476 5072 2640 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.22 nnn -c 1 -i +BINSZ VIRT RES SHR S %MEM COMMAND + 650K 139720 91220 8460 S 1.1 ranger + 1M 50496 15328 4076 S 0.2 vifm + 1M 72152 12468 7336 S 0.2 mc + 70K 16068 4620 2408 S 0.1 ncdu + 60K 15748 4396 2516 S 0.1 nnn -SIntrigued? Find out [HOW](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/performance-factors).