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htop
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by Hisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>
May, 2004 - January, 2014
Introduction
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This is htop, an interactive process viewer.
It requires ncurses. It is tested with Linux 2.6,
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improvement. Read the TODO file to see what's known to be missing.
Comparison between 'htop' and 'top'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-----------------------------------
* In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally
to see all processes and full command lines.
* 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).
* 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while
before displaying anything).
* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to
kill a process, in 'top' you do.
* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or
the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do.
* In 'htop' you can kill multiple processes at once.
* 'top' is older, hence, more tested.
* In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally
to see all processes and full command lines.
* 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).
* 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while
before displaying anything).
* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to
kill a process, in 'top' you do.
* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or
the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do.
* In 'htop' you can kill multiple processes at once.
* 'top' is older, hence, more tested.
Compilation instructions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This program is distributed as a standard autotools-based package.
See the INSTALL file for detailed instructions, but you are
probably used to the common "configure/make/make install" routine.
probably used to the common `./configure`/`make`/`make install` routine.
When fetching the code from the development repository, you need
to run the `./autogen.sh` script, which in turn requires autotools
to be installed.
See the manual page (man htop) or the on-line help ('F1' or 'h'
inside htop) for a list of supported key commands.