In ‘htop’ you don’t need to type the process number to kill a process, in ‘top’ you do. ‘htop’ starts faster (‘top’ seems to collect data for a while before displaying anything). In ‘top’ you are subject to a delay for each unassigned key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape sequences are triggered by accident).
In ‘htop’ you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and complete command lines. If you want to know about the more available option check htop man page This will complete the installation.Now if you want to check this application just type the following command from your terminal It’s just one of those small utilities that makes life a bit easier. While it hasn’t as much time behind it and therefore is less tested, it seems to work very well both locally and over SSH, and it’s well worth taking it for a spin. Htop is an easier to use and friendlier version of top. htop provides easy-to-use menus for most operations and also has support for using a mouse. Htop is a very competent interactive process viewer for the shell, providing all the functionality – and more – that the top utility does, in an easier and more intuitive way.
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