Its name is derived from the original author’s first name, as a nod to pinfo, an info-replacement program that does the same. Htop is written in the C programming language using the ncurses library.
Compared to top, it provides a more convenient, visual, cursor-controlled interface for sending signals to processes. htop is also popularly used interactively as a system monitor. Users often deploy htop in cases where Unix top does not provide enough information about the system’s processes. Htop uses color and gives visual information about processor, swap and memory status. Unlike top, htop provides a full list of processes running, instead of the top resource-consuming processes. Htop shows a frequently updated list of the processes currently running, normally ordered by the amount of CPU usage. To install sudo apt-get install htop To run htop
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