The default appearance of top from GNU coreutils is really useful,
but not as appealing as that of the likes of
htop.
top orig
After using top for 17-18 years, I discovered that it's possible to
tweak the appearance of it. My top now lists CPU load per core,
complete commands with options and even colours! (the lesson as always
is to RTFM).
top tweaked
Happy monitoring!