Now, let’s jump to the actual implementation part.

Uptime tells how long the system has been running since last reboot.

1.47 is the average load for the last 15 minutes.

1.75 is the average load for the last 4 minutes.

1.86 is the average load for the last minute.

This number may exceed, such as 6.1, so the upcoming processes have to wait for ongoing tasks to be completed. Since my system is Hexa-Core, anything under 6.0 is ok.

The load average indicates the average system load over a period of time.

1 running indicates that from those 166 processes, only one task is in a state of running.

1249 thr indicates that those 166 processes are handled by 1249 threads.

Tasks: 166 shows there is a total of 166 ongoing processes.

Once you’re done with the installation, you just have to use the htop command in the terminal, and it will reflect all the ongoing processes in your system: htop If you’re on something else or want to build from a source, you can always refer to htop’s GitHub page for detailed instructions. Similarly, if you’re on Fedora, you can use the given command: sudo dnf install htopĪnd there’s also a snap package available if you like to avoid building packages from the source: sudo snap install htop So if your machine is powered by something that is based on Debian/Ubuntu, the following command should get your job done: sudo apt install htop You won’t find htop pre-installed on the majority of Linux distributions but being one of the most popular utilities, you will find htop in default repositories of almost every Linux distro.

In this guide, I will be showing you how you can install and use htop in Linux. Pun aside, htop is a top-like utility but with a better and user-friendly interface. Using top command apart from viewing the processes could be tricky. On the command line, the top command is perhaps the goto command for checking the system resource utilization quickly. Every Linux system comes with a couple of them. Linux has several GUI and command line system monitors.

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