You should see the following window as shown in the screenshot below. You need to select the process which you want to kill and press F9 key. You can also kill a process with htop utility. Once you find the process you’ re looking for, press Enter key to select it. If you want to go to the next firefox process or search result, press F3 key again. You can see that the process id (PID) is 31321 and the process is owned by USER user. In that search box, type ‘ firefox’, and you should see firefox process selected. First start htop and press ' F3' from the keyboard, a search box should appear. For example, let’ s say you want to search for the process ‘ firefox’. You can search for a specific process with htop. Also, find how much main memory or RAM is available and how much is used You can see the uptime of your computer and also find CPU usage. Now that htop has been installed, we shall see some of the options available on it. Once you are through with the installation, you shall open the application by making use of the following command. Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1). Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1). Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1). 223888 files and directories currently installed.) Selecting previously unselected package htop. Get:1 xenial-updates/universe amd64 htop amd64 2.0.1-1ubuntu1 The following NEW packages will be installed:Ġ upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 261 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 215 kB of additional disk space will be used. Since htop is available in the official package repository you can straightaway proceed to install it using the following command. The package repository cache should be updated. It is so simple to install htop Monitoring Utility on Linux Mint 18.3, and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.įirst, make sure you update the package repository by making use of the following command. It is a great tool for Linux system administrators. You can also filter, manage and do other cool stuff on the running processes with htop utility. It is similar to another commonly used utility called top. Htop is a system monitoring utility that runs on the terminal. To install htop Monitoring Utility on Linux Mint 18.3

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