Thursday, March 18, 2010

Monitoring Ubuntu Server Using Htop

Htop is an advanced, interactive system monitor process viewer written for Linux. It is designed to replace the Unix program top. It shows a frequently updated list of the processes running on a computer, normally ordered by the amount of CPU usage. Unlike 'top', Htop provides a full list of processes running, instead of the top resource consuming processes. Htop also uses color and gives visual information about processor, swap and memory status. - Wikipedia

Hiding Userland Threads
By default htop displays userland threads of processes like console-kit-daemon. To disable this feature;

Run htop
Press F2
Select "Display options"
Mark "Hide userland threads"

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