by Hisham Muhammad [email protected] (2004 - 2016)
by Kevin Orr
This is memetop, a fork of Hisham Muhammad's
htop, an interactive process viewer.
It requires ncurses. It is developed primarily on Linux,
but we also have code for running under FreeBSD and Mac OS X
(help and testing are wanted for these platforms!)
This software has evolved considerably over the years, and is reasonably complete, but there is always room for improvement.
- In
htop, percent memory usage is calledMEM%, while inmemetopit is calledMEME%. - All documentation is updated accordingly.
- Continuous integration is run to make sure I didn't break anything
of Muhammad's when I essentially ran
sedon his entire code base. - Since this is a fork of
htopthat maintains full backward compatibility (as well as maintaining upstream merging), the name of the program remainshtop. Feel free to symlink it tomemetopor evenmaymaytop.
- In
htopyou can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and full command lines. - In
topyou are subject to a delay for each unassigned key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape sequences are triggered by accident). htopstarts faster (topseems to collect data for a while before displaying anything).- In
htopyou don't need to type the process number to kill a process, intopyou do. - In
htopyou don't need to type the process number or the priority value to renice a process, intopyou do. - In
htopyou can kill multiple processes at once. topis older, hence, more tested.
This program is distributed as a standard autotools-based package. See the INSTALL file for detailed instructions.
When compiling from a release tarball, run:
./configure && make
For compiling sources downloaded from the Git repository, run:
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
By default make install will install into /usr/local, for changing
the path use ./configure --prefix=/some/path.
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.
GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL-2.0)