But it should be easy enough to figure out on your own. For example, you can hide or show things, change colors and many more. You can press to go to htop configuration window as you can see from the screenshot below.įrom here you can customize the main window of htop. You can go back to Sorted view again by pressing. You can switch to Tree view if you want by pressing as shown in the screenshot below. The process should be killed as shown in the screenshot below. I suggest you send the default signal SIGTERM if you don’t know what to do here. Once you select the signal you want to send to the process, press. You can of course choose any other signals using the and arrow keys. To kill a process, the default signal for htop is SIGTERM. These signals are used to manage Linux processes. In the marked section, there are different Linux signals listed. You should see the following window as shown in the screenshot below. I selected the process as you can see in the screenshot below. Let’s say PID 2240 is the process I want to kill. You can also kill a process with htop utility.įirst select a process using the and arrow keys or by searching for a process using. Once you find the process you’re looking for, press to select it. To go to the next firefox process or search result, press again. You can see that the process id (PID) is 2240 and the process is owned by USER shovon. Now type in ‘firefox’, and you should see firefox process selected as shown in the screenshot below. A search box should appear as shown in the screenshot below. For example, let’s say you want to search for the process ‘firefox’.įirst start htop and press. You can search for a specific process with htop. If more swap is used, you should upgrade your main memory or RAM. Note that, the more swap is used, the more you should be worried. I also have 947 MB of swap space available and 0 KB is used. You can also find out how much Swap space is available and how much of it is used.Īs you can see, I have 2.91 GB or RAM available and 1.67 GB is used. In the marked section in the screenshot below, you can find how much main memory or RAM is available and how much is used. As you can see I have 2 cores in my processor and only 0.7% out of 100% of each is used. You can find how much of the CPU is used in the marked section in the screenshot below. As you can see, my computer is running for 2 hours 41 minutes and 58 seconds. On the marked section in the screenshot below, you can see the uptime of your computer.

Now I am going to talk about the interface of htop program.

Install htop linux