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htop — Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. An enhanced version of `top`. See als

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Problem

How to use the htop command: Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. An enhanced version of top. See also: top, atop, glances, btop, btm. More information: <https://manned.org/htop>.

Solution

htop — Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. An enhanced version of top. See also: top, atop, glances, btop, btm. More information: <https://manned.org/htop>.

Start htop:

htop

Start htop displaying processes owned by a specific user:

htop {{[-u|--user]}} {{username}}

Display processes hierarchically in a tree view to show the parent-child relationships:

htop {{[-t|--tree]}}

Sort processes by a specified sort_item (use htop --sort help for available options):

htop {{[-s|--sort]}} {{sort_item}}

Start htop with the specified delay between updates, in tenths of a second (i.e. 50 = 5 seconds):

htop {{[-d|--delay]}} {{50}}

Disable all system and process changing features:

htop --readonly

See interactive commands while running htop:

{{<F1>|<?>}}

Switch to a different tab:

<Tab>

Code Snippets

Start `htop`

htop

Start `htop` displaying processes owned by a specific user

htop {{[-u|--user]}} {{username}}

Display processes hierarchically in a tree view to show the parent-child relationships

htop {{[-t|--tree]}}

Sort processes by a specified `sort_item` (use `htop --sort help` for available options)

htop {{[-s|--sort]}} {{sort_item}}

Start `htop` with the specified delay between updates, in tenths of a second (i.e. 50 = 5 seconds)

htop {{[-d|--delay]}} {{50}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/htop

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