

Kill process using htop: Select the process and press F9 or k to display the signal menu where there is a list of signals for the process.On htop, you can scroll horizontally and vertically with the help of “Up and Down” and “Left and Right” keys to scroll through processes. In the settings we have chosen highlight new and old processes where it’ll separate all the old and new processes and display them.īy navigating to the display column we can change the display options for htop terminal, here we have changes the color of the terminal to black night. They are used to configure meters, set display options, set color patterns and choose the columns to print them in order.Ĭustomizing display using htop command by pressing F2 and then navigate to display options. There are four categories where you can customize the top menu: Setup, Left Column, Right Column, and Available Meters. Htop MenuĬustomizations are done in htop setup menu and to access the menu press F2. Uptime – Total system uptime from the last reboot. Three average load numbers are displayed: Average load of system for last 1 minute (0.13), average load of the system for last 5 minutes (0.49), average load of system for last 15 minutes (0.57) Load Average – Shows the average load of the system by CPU. Here it displays 3 values that include the total number of tasks (77), the number of threads (147 threads ), and the number of tasks currently running (1 running). Tasks – Shows the number of open processes present in the system. Tasks, Threads, Running Processes, Load Average, and Uptime are shown in the system which is present next to the color bars. It displays the amount of memory consumed by processes.

Memory Usage and Swap are present below the CPU Usage bars. Orange: Virt time (steal time + guest time).

