htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses.
Questions tagged [htop]
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docker stats memory lower than top's rss
I created a container, in which I've created ~10 processes. I want to analyze how much memory they're consuming. To achieve that, I ran top inside the container, and docker stats outside.
In top, I see 10 processes, each taking 50MB of resident…
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Multliple core overload above 100% on Centos7 Supermicro Server
I am running Centos 7 (3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64) on a supermicro H8QG6 board with 4 AMD 6276 cpus (16 cores), for a total of 64 cores. I use it for scientific computing, and usually everything runs smoothly, as in the htop first image.
Then,…
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how to find Linux processes started at a certain time
I am trying to debug Linux vnc session that is not responding. I think I clicked the KDE konsole icon and that is when the vnc session became frozen. I can see the windows and menu in KDE but nothing responds. I am wondering if i could know the…
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Why does htop show 430% CPU?
I'm confused by the CPU% values of this multi-threaded program.
Is 430% the sum of all threads?
If so, how do I find out the CPU% of the main thread itself (1776)?
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
1776 forge …
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What does a red swap bar mean, in htop?
In htop, there appear bars that show CPU, MEMORY and SWAP.
In What exactly do the colors in htop status bars mean? , I saw the meaning of the colors for the CPU bar and the MEMORY bar.
What do the colors mean in the swap bar?
I could find no mention…
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Debian 100% cpu every 30 minutes but not loggable?
I have a Debian 7 x64 machine running with Digital Ocean that has every 30 Minutes a 100% cpu usage for about 1 minute. A couple of days ago it stayed there for a couple of hours so the server finally crashed and I had to repair my Mysql databases.…
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read-only `top` in linux?
I have a few servers with an application for some clients, and I want to make an application available for the client to view the server and application status, and to be able to restart some services.
I already have done the major part of it,…
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Multiple instances of app in htop
Why does htop show two instances of my GUI app TradeClient?
while I started only one instance?
System: Ubuntu 22.04 VPS with X11 (I connect with VNC)
What is its CPU usage?
EDIT1
htop -t
EDIT2
without gdb:
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Why is htop only available in EPEL on CentOS/RHEL?
I'm just honestly curious why htop isn't available in the base, extras or even centosplus repos. To me it seems innocent and useful, but maybe I've overlooked some aspect of it, such as licensing, and I'm just wondering what the decisionmaking…
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Interpretation of server HTOP - is server Overloaded?
I have a server, which has 12 Cores, and usage is 42. What does it mean?
As far as I know 1 i 100% of one core. So 42 is 100% of 42 cores?
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Invalid cpu values in top for EC2 AWS instances
We are seeing what appear to be invalid values in top on more than one of our AWS instances:
top - 08:44:56 up 259 days, 17:31, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.01
Tasks: 78 total, 1 running, 77 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): …
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Why is my tasks's CPU usage not showing in the graph in htop?
CPU is holding at a steady 200% (task is CPU-bound), but it is not showing in the graph. Why not?
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Why do free -m and htop show different amounts of total memory?
When I run free -m, I get different data from when I use htop.
free -m:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 992 396 149 23 446 392
Swap: …
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how to read ram usage from new versions of free and htop?
before I switched to Ubuntu 16.04 64bit server on my VSPes (based on OpenVZ), I used to read the output from free and htop to analyze the actual RAM usage. Now with 16.04 that comes with the new free and htop things has changed and I can't no longer…
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htop: the CPU load of individual process is higher than the CPU load according to the CPU bar
I run a python network client (it actively downloads video through TCP) inside of VirtualBox (5.1.26) and the CPU load of this process is much higher (20%) than the CPU load according to the CPU bar in the left top corner. How is it possible?
It is…
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