You just select a process, as shown below. Using htop, it is possible to also kill a process. You can select a process by pressing Enter. The next match can easily be found by hitting again. The process id in this case is 4863 and owned by user admin_net2. This will show the specific process being selected as shown below (here it is firefox for instance). Now you can type in the process name in the marked box above. You just need to press, in which case a search box pops out as shown in the snapshot below : It is possible to search for a process in htop. Read : Ubuntu/Debian monitoring tools guide for system administrators Process search The more swap space there is, the sooner you should invest in more RAM. There is also an amount of 947 MB of swap space that is available of which 0 KB is used. Swap space available amount is also shown in the second line as well as how much of it is used.įrom what is depicted, there is 1.67 GB of RAM used and 3.84 GB of RAM available. To know how much RAM or main memory is available and the amount used, look up the field in the marked box in the snapshot below.
From what is shown, there are 2 cores in the processor and a mere 2.6% and 0.6% of each is used. In order to know how much CPU power is used, you can view the marked section in the screenshot below. As displayed, the system has been up and running for 8 minutes and 36 seconds. In the screenshot below, the uptime of your system field is marked. To change the priority (third column above), use the F7 and F8 keys ( You would need to be root though ) Uptime : In order to select a process, you can press the up/down buttons. Once installed, type in htop in the terminal in order to start it : Now you can install htop by running the following simple command: Read: How to check memory usage on Ubuntu 22.04 We provide short steps which will show you how to install htop.įirst, You will need to update the package repository cache of your Ubuntu via the command: You will be able to easily and quickly identify and kill high-resource-usage tasks. It shows the usage per CPU in a nice graphical interface along with the memory and swap usages. Htop is a process monitoring utility in Ubuntu which is based on the top tool.