In my case, I am selecting Memory based sorting. To kill a process, first select the process and then press F9 or k and then click on send to kill the process, in my case I am killing the puppet process as shown below:ĭisplay the processes sorted by different optionsīy default htop shows the process sorted by CPU usage, if you want to change the sorting option, then press F6 and select your respective Options as shown below: Section 3: Footer displays htop menu commands.Section 2: Body shows the list of processes sorted by %CPU usage.Section 1: Header shows the CPU usage, Memory usage & Swap usage along with Load average and uptime of linux box.

The htop output consists of 3 sections as follow: -v –version (Output version information and exit).

-s –sort-key COLUMN, Sort by this column (use –sort-key help for a column list).

-p Start working thread for pagemap memory stats.

-u –user=USERNAME ( Show only the processes of a given user).

-d Delay between updates, in tenths of seconds.

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