htop kicks da crap out of plain top ... neat terminal app.

CBizgreat! · 2012-05-14 01:35:46

Many of the #! crowd, probably already heard of htop, back when jebus was in diapers. This is for all us newbs who haven't. htop is an app like normal top, shows you the top processes running on your OS, how much RAM and CPU is in use and some other good stuff. But it's got a much more appealing and easier to interpret layout. Give it a try if ya like, had seen and heard of it before, but never sank in until now.

Install w synaptic or in terminal w ....

sudo apt-get install htop

Launch it in terminal by typing "htop" of course. Then press the q key to close it when you're done, admiring the kewlness of it all, or x out of terminal etc etc. blahblah. Apologize if this has been mentioned to death. Only thought it neat and worth bringing to front of mind I guess for some of us. tongue

Vll ! smile

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machinebacon · 2012-05-14 01:44:26

open htop -> pick resource eating process -> press F9 -> press 9 and enter -> fap big_smile

CBizgreat! · 2012-05-14 02:05:57

^ Nice tip machine, thanks ...

Had seen you post screenies of htop before. Must've sailed right over my head at the time. Doing some research into nginx and a person in a good resource mentioned it and posted a screenshot. Thought htop, where have ye been all my life, and so this thread. tongue

VastOne · 2012-05-14 02:10:54

I am surprised that htop is not a "default" app...

Should be..

Nice write up Cbiz

CBizgreat! · 2012-05-14 02:18:01

^Thanks Vast 2nd that. Lol .... folks like machine and yourself, htop probably taken for granted by now. Discovered longggg ago. Newbish nix folks like myself, we get mezmerized by such. Or at least .... think it's a well laid out and useful thing. Yowza ... been reading too long atm, brain feels like lumpy oatmeal though. So flashy or shiny objects are dang near hypnotic right now. wink

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machinebacon · 2012-05-14 02:20:58

Agree@Vasty: I think - or I am sure - it was default in Ubuntu #! those days. There was even an openbox menu entry for it smile

becker · 2012-05-20 15:56:37

As of yesterday or maybe the day before that htop is in fact a default app in Waldorf Phillip posted about it in the Waldorf build ready for testing thread.

VastOne · 2012-05-20 15:59:16

^ Good.. In another thread corePa said he was going to make it so and the good Captain did..!

jens · 2012-05-22 16:24:38

agree on this. htop is great.

praest76 · 2012-05-22 18:22:38

I've been using htop for a few years, it's literally top with nobs on.

mynis01 · 2012-05-22 21:34:29

I've always used htop but you gotta respect top just 'cause it's almost thirty years old now. If you ever get stuck managing an NFS share on an old System V or IRIX machine or something, you know it will be there cool

xaos52 · 2012-05-23 08:19:56

'nmon' is nice as well.

mariannemarlow · 2012-07-15 09:15:57

Just tried top, htop and nmon.

Gotta say that htop is my favourite smile

I agree that it should come as standard.

VastOne · 2012-07-15 13:49:35

mariannemarlow wrote:

Just tried top, htop and nmon.
Gotta say that htop is my favourite
I agree that it should come as standard.

htop is now part of the standard packages.

damo · 2012-07-15 15:33:20

VastOne wrote:

htop is now part of the standard packages.

Great, now I can take it out of my personal post-install apt-get script smile

pvsage · 2012-07-15 17:56:59

VastOne wrote:

htop is now part of the standard packages.

...not in Statler...

VastOne · 2012-07-15 17:57:49

^ In Waldorf

See Beckers post above.

mariannemarlow · 2012-07-15 18:07:58

Yup. Kind of guessed you meant waldolf! smile

I'm on the old one... oldie but goldie.

mynis01 · 2012-07-15 18:08:24

Generally though, if I'm using a machine with a GUI, I use this app called "conky."

mariannemarlow · 2012-07-15 18:19:28

mynis01 wrote:

Generally though, if I'm using a machine with a GUI, I use this app called "conky."

V smart too smile

damo · 2012-07-15 19:41:45

mynis01 wrote:

Generally though, if I'm using a machine with a GUI, I use this app called "conky."

But then you can't search the processes, and kill with F9 if necessary. I run htop in a terminal that starts from autostart, and reduced the number processes that I had displayed in conky smile

mariannemarlow · 2012-07-15 21:23:01

@damo

does that mean you have htop running all the time?

CBizgreat! · 2012-07-16 07:13:53

Actually did an about face on this since dorking around more w htop, not that there's a thing wrong with. Only find myself using plain ole top more often. No worries ... somebody can always use them both w/o probs. smile

mariannemarlow · 2012-07-16 07:15:51

Cbiz, you change your mind more often than your socks wink

CBizgreat! · 2012-07-16 07:27:01

^ lol Hmmm ... reminds me, probably about time I do change my socks. Both are good/useful imo though. That's definitley summin #! or gnu/nix isn't lacking, choices of apps/utils. smile

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