The htop Command | Linux Essentials Tutorial

In Linux, the top command is used to view a server’s processor activity in real-time. The htop command is an alternative to top, offering an easier interface featuring color, mouse operation, the ability to scroll through processes. In this video, we'll show how htop is overall more intuitive, although providing similar output as the regular top command.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:56 What does htop look like?
1:40 How to Install htop?
3:28 Navigating htop with a Mouse
5:14 A Few htop Keyboard Shortcuts
7:56 Sorting Columns with your Keyboard
8:38 How to Customize htop
11:25 How to Find a Process by a Specific User
12:10 How to Find a Process by Name
12:38 Conclusion
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[@act.13.41]

I find the tree view to be handy as well.
HTOP is awesome. I agree.

[@3dhu]

Ctrl+L to clean the command line. Damn, I've been running the reset command for years 😅
Ty sir for this video.

[@sorryguys1090]

Thank you very much, you've released this video exactly on time!

[@arielspalter7425]

Very useful series of videos! Thanks 👍

[@denlogv]

Would have been great if you had also explained the meaning of the other columns!

[@zeppelinmexicano]

Loves me some htop!

[@ArniesTech]

htop is THE go to system monitor for me 🙏

[@ovalwingnut]

Always "brain expanding". Thank you

[@AlbusRegis]

There is one important thing not mentioned in the video about the colors in process listing.
The column "command" has green or white text on the command name, this difference is very important when killing or locating processes because white names are the parent processes of the children with the same name in green.
If we pause the video at 1:08, at the second line there is a process whith the name "/usr/bin/crowdsec [...]" which is listed another four times on green. These green processes are threads of the main process, and if we kill any of them it is possible to break the main process or cause side effects because one of the children died unexpectedly.
This difference is important to know so that you can differentiate between different processes spawned by calling the same command multiple times and a process that spawns a lot of threads like mysql (11:45)

[@christopherjackson2157]

Oh cool Ive been looking for something like this

[@jons2447]

Thank you, Jay!
I like bpytop, I get CPU temps.

[@tubeDude48]

Install: *mc* - remember the DOS Norton Commander window? How about: *joe* - Wordstar Multi-file editor.

[@gg-gn3re]

combine nmon with htop, there's a lot more data shown via nmon.. htop is more of process specific. nmon is also available in basically every package manager

[@MrSupersidewinder]

Htop rocks!!!

[@siddiquihammad1329]

Can we write a script to move files from one server to another and schedule it so that files move by the end of day?

[@rahilarious]

F9 is hard to press, one can also press 'k" same for F3 and '/'

[@bobweiram6321]

Were you ever involved in radio broadcasting?

[@guilherme5094]

👍

[@magicworld.n]

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[@user-sl9lp1ox3j]

For the god sake, please, align left painting, it hurts my perfectionism :)

[@toumpanis]

I like glances more than htop

[@normski123456789]

htop 4thewin