htop
htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal. The available columns are: PID, STATE, PPID, PGRP, SESSION, TTY_NR, TPGID, MINFLT...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Runs on command line
- Performance Monitoring
- Process Monitoring
- Command line interface
- Ad-free
- Portable
- Works Offline
Tags
- process-list
- process-viewer
htop News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
OrdinaryPerson added htop as alternative to TaskManager
htop information
Developed by
Hisham MuhammadLicensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is htop?
htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal. The available columns are: PID, STATE, PPID, PGRP, SESSION, TTY_NR, TPGID, MINFLT, CMINFLT, MAJFLT, CMAJFLT, UTIME, STIME, CUTIME, CSTIME, PRIORITY, NICE, STARTTIME, PROCESSOR, M_SIZE, M_RESIDENT, M_SHARE, M_TRS, M_DRS, M_LRS, M_DT, ST_UID, PERCENT_CPU, PERCENT_MEM, USER, TIME, NLWP, TGID, CTID, VPID, VXID, RCHAR, WCHAR, SYSCR, SYSCW, RBYTES, WBYTES, CNCLWB, IO_READ_RATE, IO_WRITE_RATE, IO_RATE, CGROUP, OOM, IO_PRIORITY
Comparison between htop and top
- In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and complete command lines.
- In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape sequences are triggered by accident).
- 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while before displaying anything).
- In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to kill a process, in 'top' you do.
- In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do.
- 'htop' supports mouse operation, 'top' doesn't
- 'top' is older, hence, more used and tested.
Comments and Reviews
It's the best drop-in replacement for standard top, has nice colors, tree view (highlighting the executable and threads, etc), columns are of course configurable, and the coolest features are the built-in syscall tracing and listing of open files for any process.
I have no idea how to configure elapsed time with htop 3.0.5.