The htop is nothing but Interactive process viewer for Arch Linux based system. It is just like default top command with an additional set of options and better display on the screen. This page shows how to install htop on Arch Linux using command line options.
How to install htop on Arch Linux using pacman
The procedure for installing htop Arch Linux is as follows:
- Open the terminal window/application.
- For remote Arch Linux server login using ssh command.
- Execute pacman -Ss htop command to search for htop on Arch Linux
- Run sudo pacman -S htop to install htop in Arch Linux
Let us see all commands and examples in details.
Please note that vivek@desktop:$ is my shell prompt. You need to type all commands after that prompt.
Arch Linux install htop
It is important that you know how to search for any packages. Therefore type the following command to search for htop package using pacman command:
vivek@desktop:$ sudo pacman -Ss htop
Sample outputs:
extra/htop 2.2.0-3
Interactive process viewer
community/bashtop 0.9.24-1
Linux resource monitor
community/nvtop 1.0.0-2
An htop like monitoring tool for NVIDIA GPUs
Find information about htop package
Run the following command:
vivek@desktop:$ sudo pacman -Si htop
Repository : extra Name : htop Version : 2.2.0-3 Description : Interactive process viewer Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://hisham.hm/htop/ Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : ncurses libnl Optional Deps : lsof: show files opened by a process strace: attach to a running process Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 83.89 KiB Installed Size : 199.27 KiB Packager : Christian Hesse <arch@eworm.de> Build Date : Tue 21 Jan 2020 08:12:00 PM UTC Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature
Installing htop on Arch Linux
First, make sure you system is up to date:
vivek@desktop:$ sudo pacman -Syu
Finally, run the following to install htop on Arch Linux:
vivek@desktop:$ sudo pacman -S htop
Installing htop on Arch Linux box
How to use htop command
The syntax is:
htop
htop [options]
htop [options] arg1 arg2 argN
htop in action
One can use a monochrome color scheme, run:
vivek@desktop:$ htop -C
vivek@desktop:$ htop --no-color
Want to see the tree view by default when running htop? Try:
vivek@desktop:$ htop -t
vivek@desktop:$ htop --tree
Let us see only processes of a given user named tina:
vivek@desktop:$ htop -u tina
vivek@desktop:$ htop --user=tina
vivek@desktop:$ htop --user=mysql
Limit and show process for only the given PIDs:
vivek@desktop:$ htop -p PID
vivek@desktop:$ htop -p PID1,PID2
vivek@desktop:$ htop --pid=PID,[,PID,PID...]
vivek@desktop:$ htop -p 3754
vivek@desktop:$ htop -p 6876,8618
Arch Linux htop keyboard shortcut keys
The following commands are supported while in htop:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Up arrow key | Select (highlight) the previous process in the process list. Scroll the list if necessary. |
| Down arrow key | Select (highlight) the next process in the process list. Scroll the list if necessary. |
| Left arrow key | Scroll the process list left. |
| Right arrow key | Scroll the process list right. |
| PgUp, PgDn | Scroll the process list up or down one window. |
| Home | Scroll to the top of the process list and select the first process. |
| End | Scroll to the bottom of the process list and select the last process. |
| s | Trace process system calls: if strace(1) is installed, pressing this key will attach it to the currently selected process, presenting a live update of system calls issued by the process. |
| l | Display open files for a process: if lsof(1) is installed, pressing this key will display the list of file descriptors opened by the process. |
Other keyboard shortcuts
| u | Show only processes owned by a specified user. |
| M | Sort by memory usage (top compatibility key). |
| P | Sort by processor usage (top compatibility key). |
| T | Sort by time (top compatibility key). |
| F | “Follow” process: if the sort order causes the currently selected process to move in the list, make the selection bar follow it. This is useful for monitoring a process: this way, you can keep a process always visible on screen. When a movement key is used, “follow” loses effect. |
| K | Hide kernel threads: prevent the threads belonging the kernel to be displayed in the process list. (This is a toggle key.) |
| H | Hide user threads: on systems that represent them differently than ordinary processes (such as recent NPTL-based systems), this can hide threads from userspace processes in the process list. (This is a toggle key.) |
| p | Show full paths to running programs, where applicable. (This is a toggle key.) |
| Ctrl-L | Rfresh the screen. |
| F1 | See this help menu. |
How to get help about htop
Simply pass the --help option. For example:
vivek@desktop:$ htop --help
vivek@desktop:$ man htop
Conclusion
This page showed you how to install and use htop on Arch Linux Unix server. It has many more option. Hence, see the htop home page online or read man page by typing the following man command:
$ man htop
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