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htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses.

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Cannot explain memory occupancy in linux

I'm working on a debian 9.3, the free command return total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 131940516 100433176 29189576 33940 2317764 30413920 Swap: 124999676 7736 …
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Displaying multiple terminals in a single window

I'm trying to setup a dedicated computer for displaying server statuses, and I'd like to showing the output of htop for about 5 servers simultaneously in a grid of terminals. What's the most efficient way to do this? I know how to use terminal…
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SNMPD reporting conflicting CPU usage to top/htop

I've got a bit of an issue with reporting discrepancies. I've currently got a server running Ubuntu 14.04.1 trusty and am receiving SNMP alerts saying that 2 of my cores are at 100% usage. When I login to the server to check on this via top/htop it…
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understanding htop on ubuntu machine and debugging performance bottleneck

I have the following stats when I do a htop: I don't understand although it says that I have 7450MB memory the graph goes towards the end. Why is this?
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/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start command in HTOP running consistently. Is it a bot?

I have got a VPS with six websites running on it. None of them get very much traffic at all, maybe 10-20 a day each. As far as I am aware, /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start should represent a user hitting a site. (user in htop is www-data.) I am watching…
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Is it possible to monitor CPU usage and execute a script if the CPU exceeds a certain amount?

Using a tool like top or htop, is it possible to monitor CPU usage and execute a script if CPU usage exceeds a certain amount?
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Debain server "HTOP": shows several PHP-CGI instances

I'm new to Debian servers, (Linux VPS in general) and have a question about /usr/bin-php-cgi showing up several times as "tasks" when I run the HTOP "app." I couldn't find any information online about why there are several php-cgi tasks running.…
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memory difference on top and htop

I got a new VPS as my database server. I installed only mysql and started. After some time(even after shutting down mysql service), I see only %3-4 of the memory used in htop but according to top I only have 30MB free memory. It has a total of 4GB…
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Running really slow on my Linux workstation, need some assistance

I have something weird going on with my workstation, like see it says 42.1%wa, whenever I get to this it becomes so slow, any ideas what can be done, how I can identify what's causing it and all? top - 15:44:02 up 93 days, 4:29, 16 users, load…
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How can I get the query string, starting by the process id associated to the Postgres connection running it (output of htop)?

I have a machine, let's call it DB_server, which is connected to two application machines, let's call them application_server_1 and application_server_2. DB_server hosts 3 postgres databases on it, the name of one of it is centraldb, and the…
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how much data does htop transfer from remote?

If I am connected by ssh to a machine running htop, how do I calculate how much data the htop process is sending from the remote to the machine with ssh terminal? For example having htop open for a day connected to a 2xcpu 16gb ram ec2 instance,…
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Pink in memory htop

What does the pink color in memory htop means and how can I reset it? You can see example here: htop preview
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Automate logging in to separate cluster nodes for monitoring (htop)

I login to the cluster and login to say N=3 nodes. Then, I laboriously open the N panes in eg tmux or kitty, ssh onto the login node to each, then ssh onto the specific node for each of the N nodes, then start htop N times in each pane, in order to…
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ubuntu htop half of cores in blue 100%

I had try to reboot my server with two e5-2637v3 cpu. does blue mean nothing to do?
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Multiple core overload on Ubuntu

I have a really strange behavior of the server. I run Apache, MySQL, WordPress on it. And recently, it has had a lot of freezes. MySQL/Apache shows high CPU usage (out of 24 cores - 2400% cpu% according to the htop). At first, I thought that the…
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