mirror of https://github.com/xzeldon/htop.git
63 lines
2.3 KiB
Plaintext
63 lines
2.3 KiB
Plaintext
htop
|
|
====
|
|
|
|
by Hisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>
|
|
|
|
May, 2004 - January, 2014
|
|
|
|
Note
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
 **Mac users, [click here](https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/554-mac-os-x-support-in-the-official-htop-1-x-tree)!** The htop version you are using is a 5-year old fork -- help bring htop 1.x to the Mac!
|
|
|
|
Introduction
|
|
------------
|
|
|
|
This is htop, an interactive process viewer.
|
|
It requires ncurses. It is tested with Linux 2.6,
|
|
but is also reported to work (and was originally developed)
|
|
with the 2.4 series.
|
|
|
|
Note that, while, htop is Linux specific -- it is based
|
|
on the Linux /proc filesystem -- it is also reported to work
|
|
with FreeBSD systems featuring a Linux-compatible /proc.
|
|
This is, however, unsupported. Contact the packager for your
|
|
system when reporting problems on platforms other than Linux.
|
|
|
|
This software has evolved considerably during the last years,
|
|
and is reasonably complete, but there is still room for
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
Compilation instructions
|
|
------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
if not all keys work check your curses configuration.
|