How do I read Htop results?
Understanding CPU Usage in htop
- Blue: Display percentage of CPU used by low priority processes. (
- Green: Displays percentage of CPU used for processes owned by normal users.
- Red: Displays percentage of CPU used by system processes.
- Orange: Displays percentage of CPU used by IRQ time.
What is average load factor?
The load factor is a dimensionless number equal to the average load divided by the peak load. For example, if the average load is 66 kWh/d (or 2.75 kW) and the peak load is 10.5 kW, the load factor is 2.75 kW/10.5 kW = 0.26.
What do the three values in htop mean?
Load Average: Refers to the Average load of the system. Three values are referring to the average load of a system for last minute, for last five minutes and for last 15 minutes. Uptime: Refers to the system uptime since the last reboot. PID – It describes the Process ID number.
What do you need to know about htop?
Its color-coded display makes it easy to understand the status of your system at a glance and gives you the power to manage processes with a single keystroke. What is htop? htop is a text-mode (console or terminal) process application for Unix systems. It plays three primary roles: System monitor. Process-viewer. Process manager.
Why is there only one running process in htop?
When you run htop and see just one running process, it means that it is the htop process itself. If you run sleep 30 and run htop again, you’ll notice that there is still just 1 running process. That’s because sleep is not running, it is sleeping or idling or in other words waiting for something to happen.
What does htop do in the command line?
htop allows you to monitor processes running on the system along with their full command lines. We can perform tasks related to processes (killing, renicing) without entering their PIDs. Htop allows us to sort the processes on the basis of CPU, Memory and Time Interval. It also allows us to sort all the processes owned by a particular user.