There’s no shortage of monitoring tools available for Linux servers and workstations, but htop is a a classic. By installing htop, you can see an overview of your resource usage, including meters for CPU, RAM, Swap, and more. In this video, I’ll give you an overview of htop.

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## Individual sections
00:00 – Intro
04:32 – Installation
06:15 – Basic usage
07:48 – Keyboard shortcuts
08:21 – Killing a misbehaving process
10:49 – Sorting processes by memory or CPU
11:56 – Customizing htop
14:23 – Showing processes run by a specific user
15:01 – Searching for processes by name

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