Questions tagged [htop]
htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses.
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How to disable F9 (process kill) option in htop
Is it possible to remove or disable only the F9 (process kill) option from htop? I have gone through the man pages and documentation, and all the layout options seem to be related to process/columns, ...
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Ubuntu high processor utilization with no identifiable processes consuming processor [duplicate]
Ubuntu host with 100% utilization in top or htop.
When I inspect the running processes, I don't see a process consuming a significant amount of CPU resources.
I've tried using commands like top, htop, ...
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list only one Process by name in htop (even when it restarts?)
i am trying to get htop to show me one process.
this is a programm i wrote wich comes up from time to time (so it always has another pid).
what i am trying is something like that:
htop -p $(pgrep ...
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Multiple instances of app in htop
Why does htop show two instances of my GUI app TradeClient?
while I started only one instance?
System: Ubuntu 22.04 VPS with X11 (I connect with VNC)
What is its CPU usage?
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htop -t
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how much data does htop transfer from remote?
If I am connected by ssh to a machine running htop, how do I calculate how much data the htop process is sending from the remote to the machine with ssh terminal?
For example having htop open for a ...
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Linux: 100 Mi RAM free but no processes with high-memory usage
A Debian Bullseye server is using almost 100% RAM quantity (7.65G / 7.79 G):
But there are no processes with more than 0.0% memory usage
DEV root@postgres2 ~# free -h
total used ...
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Bridge interface causes high CPU utilization
We are facing a weird issue with a server we have on our laboratory. Specifically, the server shows high CPU utilization from low priority processes (blue color in htop) with 50% of the cores ...
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Pink in memory htop
What does the pink color in memory htop means and how can I reset it?
You can see example here:
htop preview
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ubuntu htop half of cores in blue 100%
I had try to reboot my server with two e5-2637v3 cpu.
does blue mean nothing to do?
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Memory usage: big difference in `free -m` and htop as well calculation of used memory in htop compared from /proc/meminfo
I'm aware of this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41224738/how-to-calculate-system-memory-usage-from-proc-meminfo-like-htop
Answer seems outdated regarding memory usage and this question ...
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100% CPU usage reported, but no processes using the CPU
I am running Debian 10 (kernel 4.19.0-18-amd64) on bare metal and I have recently noticed strange CPU usage.
Screenshot of htop, sorted by CPU%
Screenshot of top, sorted by CPU%
As you can see, 100% ...
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Multiple core overload on Ubuntu
I have a really strange behavior of the server. I run Apache, MySQL, WordPress on it. And recently, it has had a lot of freezes. MySQL/Apache shows high CPU usage (out of 24 cores - 2400% cpu% ...
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Load average explanation for multi-core systems
I'm trying to understand the Load average in my Debian system. I've read some explanations of the displayed values and I came to understand that the number represents how "overloaded" my ...
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Where is my memory being consumed? [duplicate]
I have a Ubuntu 20.04 server which is reporting relatively low free RAM:
top - 11:28:31 up 5 days, 20:12, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.27
Tasks: 268 total, 1 running, 267 sleeping, 0 ...
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Messagebus is using more than 4 GB RAM
I have just checked my Server and it is running relativly low on RAM. There are currently no users on anyone of the Services Installed (Jitsi, Rocket.Chat, OnlyOffice Workspace) as they're all still ...
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Memory usage doesn't add up: most of the RAM gone mysteriously
I have a Fedora 30 [5.6.13-100.fc30.x86_64] machine with 32GB of RAM onboard.
Right after boot both free -h and htop indicate that 21-22GB is used:
[ andriim@dev-r-vrt-007 ~/work ] $ free -h
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Tightvnc Server using only 1 core?
I have a server setup with 8 cores and 32gb of RAM. I am using it to launch as many java applications as I can and hope to make the most efficient use of my resources. Upon launching I notice the ...
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Why htop shows 48 sleeping processes while "show processlist" shows none? (MySQL 8.0.21-0ubuntu0.20.04.4)
SHOW PROSSESLIST shows exactly no sleeping processes. But Htop does: I got about 48 sleeping /usr/sbin/mysqld processes with high values of VIRT 15.2G and RES 6199M.
What's going on there? Why these ...
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Why do EC2 instances sometimes end up giving a very high IRQ load in htop?
We have a couple of t3.small instances. This is what the CPU utilization graph ends up looking like for both of them (running similar programs).
Both seem to end up stabilizing at 20% CPU utilization....
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Tomcat process which is listed several times
I have a Tomcat 9 server running on my Centos 7.
When I issue the htop command I have a tomcat process which is listed several times and I would like to understand why it appears several times
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Where is my bottleneck: RAM, CPU or disk?
I have a 32 core, 64 thread, 128GB RAM system with internal SSD.
I'm running 64 data mining/simulation jobs in parallel that each load 1GB from disk and run for about 5-10 minutes .
I want to know ...
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new admin wondering why htop and top show different numbers on scientific linux VM [duplicate]
I am trying to figure out if I am using htop correctly. A top on this VM reveals:
top - 17:52:39 up 98 days, 23:05, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks: 178 total, 1 running, 177 ...
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free and htop report totally different numbers
See the following screenshot:
The "total" amount of memory is reported at 8GB by both htop and free, but while free reports that only 2.7GB is "used", htop reports that 7.53GB is used. free reports ...
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Why is the memory consumption in htop not shown proportionally?
Based on this question the colours have the following meaning:
Green = Used memory
Blue = Buffers
Yellow/Orange = Cache
Now looking at my htop, I see only 878MB is taken, which includes a large ...
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Why is htop only available in EPEL on CentOS/RHEL?
I'm just honestly curious why htop isn't available in the base, extras or even centosplus repos. To me it seems innocent and useful, but maybe I've overlooked some aspect of it, such as licensing, and ...
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How to record and replay htop?
TL;DR Is there an option to run htop in a way that will generate some report and the load it using htop later? Similar to perf record and perf report.
I'm a big fan of htop. I use it quite a lot when ...
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Interpretation of server HTOP - is server Overloaded?
I have a server, which has 12 Cores, and usage is 42. What does it mean?
As far as I know 1 i 100% of one core. So 42 is 100% of 42 cores?
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docker stats memory lower than top's rss
I created a container, in which I've created ~10 processes. I want to analyze how much memory they're consuming. To achieve that, I ran top inside the container, and docker stats outside.
In top, I ...
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why doesn't htop display the same process start time than ps
Ubuntu 16.0.4.5, htop 2.0.1 and 2.2.0 compiled from source.
Showing the STARTTIME column in htop, displays Jan25 but ps -o lstart displays Sat Dec 15 20:58:46 2018
By looking at the pid it seems ...
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Invalid cpu values in top for EC2 AWS instances
We are seeing what appear to be invalid values in top on more than one of our AWS instances:
top - 08:44:56 up 259 days, 17:31, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.01
Tasks: 78 total, 1 running, ...
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Why is my tasks's CPU usage not showing in the graph in htop?
CPU is holding at a steady 200% (task is CPU-bound), but it is not showing in the graph. Why not?
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Cannot explain memory occupancy in linux
I'm working on a debian 9.3, the free command return
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 131940516 100433176 29189576 33940 ...
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Why do free -m and htop show different amounts of total memory?
When I run free -m, I get different data from when I use htop.
free -m:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 992 396 149 ...
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Displaying multiple terminals in a single window
I'm trying to setup a dedicated computer for displaying server statuses, and I'd like to showing the output of htop for about 5 servers simultaneously in a grid of terminals.
What's the most ...
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htop shows 33% memory usage, but its Mem bar is full
When I run htop on a remote computer its Mem bar shows that memory is full and even swap shares 2.3G(also I can see the system works very slow). But htop's MEM% column shows about 33% memory usage. ...
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how to read ram usage from new versions of free and htop?
before I switched to Ubuntu 16.04 64bit server on my VSPes (based on OpenVZ), I used to read the output from free and htop to analyze the actual RAM usage. Now with 16.04 that comes with the new free ...
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Multliple core overload above 100% on Centos7 Supermicro Server
I am running Centos 7 (3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64) on a supermicro H8QG6 board with 4 AMD 6276 cpus (16 cores), for a total of 64 cores. I use it for scientific computing, and usually everything runs ...
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htop: the CPU load of individual process is higher than the CPU load according to the CPU bar
I run a python network client (it actively downloads video through TCP) inside of VirtualBox (5.1.26) and the CPU load of this process is much higher (20%) than the CPU load according to the CPU bar ...
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how to find Linux processes started at a certain time
I am trying to debug Linux vnc session that is not responding. I think I clicked the KDE konsole icon and that is when the vnc session became frozen. I can see the windows and menu in KDE but nothing ...
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SNMPD reporting conflicting CPU usage to top/htop
I've got a bit of an issue with reporting discrepancies.
I've currently got a server running Ubuntu 14.04.1 trusty and am receiving SNMP alerts saying that 2 of my cores are at 100% usage.
When I ...
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Why does htop show 430% CPU?
I'm confused by the CPU% values of this multi-threaded program.
Is 430% the sum of all threads?
If so, how do I find out the CPU% of the main thread itself (1776)?
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES ...
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htop - show I/O wait percentage
Is there a way to show I/O wait percentage in htop? I can't find a way how to enable this. On the following link there is an example of the functionality I need (the "Avg:" row): http://www.concept47....
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Equivalent to the htop command on Windows
I installed an nginx server on Windows, then ran it and tested it by accessing it on the local host.
However I want to see more details which I can see on a Linux environment when running the htop ...
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What does a red swap bar mean, in htop?
In htop, there appear bars that show CPU, MEMORY and SWAP.
In What exactly do the colors in htop status bars mean? , I saw the meaning of the colors for the CPU bar and the MEMORY bar.
What do the ...
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ubuntu server 14.04 LTS unusual outgoing traffic
I have virtual private host with ubuntu server 14.04 LTS. On this server, we serve web service. We run apache2 and tomcat as web server.
apache2 + django1.8 and tomcat8 recently, I observed the server ...
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htop cgroup column widen
How can I see full length of text CGROUP column in htop? I cannot enlarge it.
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htop res & virt colors
I did some googling about htop, I found this and this.
But I couldn't seem to find what the red color of virt and res means.
As you can see in the screenshot, some are whitish and other are red.
Does ...
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htop 100% fake CPU load
Recently my VPS show 100% CPU usage of all cores in htop and observium, but there is no process that uses > 5% CPU. In fact, the statistics of my VPS host shows there is no activity at all. Is this a ...
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Child proc in highload
I need to know why this child proc is using 208% of my CPU.
I think it would be a good idea to find the pathname of it. Do you have any idea how to find it?
4910 root 20 0 9691M 2006M 7924 R 208. 12....
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understanding htop on ubuntu machine and debugging performance bottleneck
I have the following stats when I do a htop:
I don't understand although it says that I have 7450MB memory the graph goes towards the end. Why is this?
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