htop – it.megocollector.com

Use htop to determine which processor a process is loaded

June 6, 2018

Running Linux on virtual machines makes life so much easier when it comes to adding virtual hardware to a vm. In one case, I added 4 CPUs to a virtual machine, and wondered if I needed to restart the applications to utilize the newly added CPUs. htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer and process-manager. It is designed as an alternative…

Install htop as a top Alternative

September 16, 2015

htop, an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals). It is a powerful alternative to using the top command. Here is a little script to install htop, which can easily be applied to any number of other simple installs too. #!/bin/bash cd /opt # Download and install if [ $(arch) = “i686″…