To install htop on a RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 system, you will need to download the files from the above link. To install htop on a openSUSE system, issue the command: zypper install htop To install htop on a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint system, issue the command: sudo apt install htop Htop can be downloaded from the following locations if it is not already present within your Linux systems repositories. Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE have these packages available. (Many linux distributions already have htop in the repositories). To use 'htop', you will need to download the appropriate set of binaries from for your system. Pressing the 'F6' key gives you the option to amend the fields that are displayed. However, you can move your cursor up or down over the running process and quickly change the priority (Nice + / Nice -) with the 'F7' or 'F8' keys or Kill a process with the 'F9' key. ![]() Underneath this graphical display is a more familiar view which resembles top in many ways. ![]() Across the top, the current number of running tasks, Load average and up times are displayed. With htop, you are greeted with a colourful screen displaying CPU Utilisation, Memory Utilisation and Swap file utilisation in a graphical format. Htop is an alternative monitoring tool to the more familiar top command. ![]() Htop Monitoring Tool Monitoring Linux with htop
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