HTOP Commands

HTOP

Top Left Box: Displays, in real time, graph of your hardware resources.
Top Right Box: Displays the Tasks, average load, and the uptime
Bottom Box:  Displays the processes ID, , the user account, how many resources it is consuming (CPU/MEM), how long its been running and where it can be located.

• PID: The process ID.
• USER: The username of the process owner or the user ID if the name can’t be determined.
• PRI: The kernels internal priority for the process, usually just its NI value plus twenty. Different for real-time processes.
• NI: The nice value of a process, from 19 (low priority) to -20 (high priority).
• VIRT: Size in memory of the total program size.
• RES: The resident set size, i.e. the size of the text and data sections, plus stack usage.
• SHR: The size of the process’s shared pages.
• S: The state of the process.
  • S: for sleeping or idle
  • R: for running
  • D: for disk sleep, uninterruptible
  • Z: for zombie, waiting for parent to read its exit status
  • T: for traced or suspended
  • W: for paging
• CPU%: The percentage of the CPU time that the process is currently using.
• MEM%: The percentage of memory the process is currently using
• TIME+: The time, measured in clock ticks that the process has spent in user and system time
• Command: Full path of the command.