HTOP Interactive process viewer on Linux

HTOP Interactive process viewer on Linux

Htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer written for Linux. It is designed to replace the Unix program top. It shows a frequently updated list of the processes running on a computer, normally ordered by the amount of CPU usage. Unlike top, htop provides a full list of processes running, instead of the top resource-consuming processes. Htop uses color and gives visual information about processor, swap and memory status.

Users often deploy htop in cases where Unix top does not provide enough information about the systems processes, for example when trying to find minor memory leaks in applications. Compared to top, it provides a more convenient, cursor-controlled interface for killing processes.

It is a very simple forward package installation on Centos server.

yum install htop

And that is all to it. You start the the application just by typing the htop command in shell. Let us take a look at the interface.

You can use a cool features for filtering and killing the processes you think that are using up the resources on the server. I often use the SortBy command to sort the processes by either the CPU or the MEMORY usage.

Have fun!!!

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