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Process management: htop

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Process management: htop

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- [Instructor] htop is a popular program for monitoring what's going on with a system's processes and resource usage. You can install from your distro's repository, and then open it up with htop. htop is a little more colorful than the regular top program. It shows some different information, and shows some information differently. One of the most striking things in the htop interface is how it represents CPU, Memory, and Swap usage as colored meters, in addition to the numeric values for the information it's showing. The top meter is the percentage of CPU usage, showing blue for low priority processes, green for normal priority, red for kernel processes, and cyan for virtualization. The second meter shows what amount of RAM is available and used on the system, with green representing used memory, blue representing memory used as buffer, and yellow showing how much memory is being used as cache. Swap is the space on disk where things from Memory can be stored if they're in the way of…

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