Using Htop To Monitor Your System

[@vim1729]

Glances is another system monitoring terminal program which has many more features and more active development community.

[@SoundToxin]

There are a million of these things. You've also got bashtop and bpytop. I recall one written with nodejs as well, but let's not talk about that one.

[@zebilaweed]

I'm surprised you do not recommend 'Hide userland process threads' display option, it makes htop so much clearer without all the child processes displayed. Also I think you NEED to quit with F10 to save the configs (and also, F5 toggles the tree view).

[@BankruptPizza]

Hey DT, Congratulations on your new office. And btw awesome (not the wm) video. Thanks for the video about customization options

[@dungeon4971]

Thanks DT, it was a very helpful video. I didn't know that you could use htop to view cpu temps, network usage or disk io. That really help me a lot.

[@himanshushukla6451]

24 cpus. You could compile Gentoo in like half an hour.

[@deepakshivraj4881]

I think he said 24 threads

[@deepakshivraj4881]

@@anylastwordspod Yeah I know but I replied to the above guy cuz he said 24 cores

[@himanshushukla6451]

@@deepakshivraj4881 yea sry 😜

[@DDBAA24]

I've been waiting for a Gentoo channel to emerge, but that would be 'superfluous' having the wiki and all... Word of the day from this video ✔ used it in a sentence + bonus for edginess 💥

[@AlastairMontgomery]

This is why I love your channel, even after years using Unix/Linux, you make every day a school day :)

[@dakata2416]

I never knew that you can do such things in htop. Thank you!

[@dany74q]

You can also use the htop-vim fork for vim bindings

[@Phydoux2112]

Yeah. I knew all about this for a while now. F2 seemed intriguing enough to check out about a year ago. I've had all of my CPUs on the left column for a while now. Keeping all of the bar graph stuff on the left side and the more informative numbers stuff on the right.

[@ManuelJordan317]

+1 for cover quickly and well explained about F2 Setup

[@adriancostin9138]

thank you for the video, i actually didn't know it had color schemes. just changed mine to the bright blue psychopaths tend to use :)

[@RicardoPerezLeon]

Wow, so many cores and ram...Powerful pc.

[@ChristopherGray00]

most modern CPU's have 2 threads per core, so he could have a 12 core machine displaying 24. still, 12 core is good obviously, but the machine will display the threads, not the literal physical cores.

[@dmiracle74]

Great video. I saw the setup option but never bothered looking.

[@gordonbai5320]

I'm super interested in custimising htop, although I'm not a sys admin but only a daily user. Thank you DT for the video!

[@hackintoshmatrix5321]

Why did u delete the video before? I loved this vid BTW!!

[@zainjadoon759]

pulse audio issues

[@zainjadoon759]

finally a video that shows how to do this

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

You should get one of those POWER9 desktops from Raptor next time you buy a computer, DT.

[@xKhfan213x]

Cpu frequency is good to enable if you do anything like overclocking. When your running your cpu at a higher rated frequency heat can be a real issue and can damage the cpu. Well let's say you overclocked and your system overheated and restarted the system. On cool down your cpu temps would be normal but could still be slightly damaged. Reading the frequency is a good way to see when the cpu is starting to fail or slow down and might give you the chance to stop overclocking and save the cpu

[@zaharib]

Very useful video DT. Thanks 🥰

[@lordarcadius]

Why did you delete the video earlier?

[@DistroTube]

Pulse audio.

[@saicharanruka]

i saw that too !

[@saicharanruka]

DT plz comment on this....plzzzz !!

[@RedBearAK]

Hey DT, it would be neat to see what you think about BPyTOP sometime. It’s the successor to BashTOP, ported to python for better performance. It’s in some repos already but it can also be installed easily with “pip3 install -upgrade bpytop” if you install python3-pip. It has themes and is crazy configurable. I’ve preferred it over HTOP for quite a while now.

[@tecra3toshiba149]

Thank you DT. New to speaking penguin, not OS. Cheers!

[@monkeybean12]

Htop is a great task manager for the linux command line.

[@idunnol0l]

Спасибо. Очень полезная инструкция.

[@noam65]

Thank you.

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

I just use top. When I want to kill a process, I tend to know what it's called anyway, so I just killall. Though I do have my own command that lists all the processes with ps, and that can then be used to kill as well. Oh, and SIGTERM doesn't kill a process, it terminates it. SIGKILL kills it.

[@HBgv5830]

Thanks. Very useful...

[@Nightknight187]

Hey , DT my friend can you make a video about "ZRAM"

[@debianswami8204]

He normally only makes vids on processes that he uses... What are your questions/ concerns about ZRAM? Since RAM is so cheap now(Heck, I remember when it went down to only $20/MB and we thought that was insanely cheap) why or how do you want to use it anyway??

[@j0hannes5]

Why would I use htop over the mac activity monitor? Seems to give me more info in an actual gui.

[@ilyasazonov3901]

Hello DT! Could you tell me, what audio interface you're using? I need to buy one and thinking about Focusrite Clarett , but I'm not sure it will work with linux. The one you use probably has linux support. I have tried to find other ways to contact you, but failed to find anything but mastodon and youtube. So, sorry for offtopic. Maybe there's a video on your audio setup?

[@VisuallyExplained]

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[@ilyasazonov3901]

@@VisuallyExplained Thank you so much! I was trying to figure out if I could use Focusrite with linux and that video answers that exact question!

[@daringcuteseal]

Wow I'm crying here with my Core i3 CPU

[@soulofhogwarts]

Only thing is missing is vim bindings.

[@JustinBumpusBarnett]

Try bottom. It has vim bindings. github.com/clementtsang/bottom

[@N0zer0]

Try htop-vim-git from AUR

[@user-he4ef9br7z]

yay -S htim

[@AbdelaliAbdallah]

Very good content thank you

[@greatsaid5271]

very helpful, thanks

[@joetheman74]

Why not switch to something more modern and more powerful and more customizable? BPYTOP has tons of features and customization, it's way better looking and yet still runs in the terminal. It's in the standard repos now too.

[@MRSZ5440]

Just came across your channel, you maybe able to help me out my F keys don't work in htop. Linux mint 20.1

[@dougtilaran3496]

I use stacer

[@gabrielduta9421]

Check out Bashtop, does the same thing but is cooler

[@RedBearAK]

BashTOP is superseded by BPyTOP. It was ported to python.

[@SoundToxin]

@@RedBearAK I like to keep bpytop in view because it looks cool, but when I need to actually kill a program or do something else, I usually just open htop anyway.

[@tomasbadenes]

Does anybody know how to make the parent process show the sum of the memory of the children? So that I can search for the internet browser in three view, hide all those million threads and have a nice number like 40% in the ram field

[@NoEntityHere]

Arco Linux S and L are out

[@vaibhavppandey]

Sorry if I am missing something out here but they are out for over 2 weeks now. Are there any new updates to them?

[@oalfodr]

I think I heard you saying that you have 24 core CPU. I assumed that you would have 48 threads

[@greatestcait]

He might've meant a 24 thread CPU, which would mean 12 physical cores.

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

Insane. I have 8 threads. And that's on my best computer.

[@debianswami8204]

@@censoredterminalautism4073 no insanity is running Alacrity on it, to save bloat...lulz Just think what KDE w/Compiz Reloaded could do......

[@liftlinux9421]

@@censoredterminalautism4073 I have 4 threads lol

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

@@liftlinux9421 All of my other computers have Core 2 Duos. It's just my main computer. I don't have a single GPU anymore either. I will upgrade when I can, though, it's only temporary.

[@lamprospitsillou6325]

wait..is this the new office?

[@debianswami8204]

no...its the old setup still....its cramped, that's why the odd camera angle.

[@Aiden-vj2tg]

I just use gtop

[@gabemurray5365]

DT stands for Donald Trump right?

[@eritert]

Distros make up only 10% of your content these days, if I had to guess. So, you should change your name to SoftTube, to encompass all that you do. The logo can be a flaccid tube. What do you think? There’s no underlying hostility here btw, i just like making dumb jokes. Keep up the great work.

[@vaibhavppandey]

Shut up and take my upvote. You made me laugh out so loud haha.

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

SoftTube sounds like a tube that can't get hard. Probably not a good choice!

[@debianswami8204]

You know....they have a little blue pill for that....just saying.

[@RockawayCCW]

htop is visually confusing to me, probably because I'm autistic. I prefer something less cluttered and better organized.

[@ivanovich6450]

All those threads and ram and you're not mining crypto. What a waste

[@debianswami8204]

........and running alacrity....because console is bloat...lulz

[@trondnylkken956]

Stop using dark mode it is imposebil to see what you doing.