PID | The process' ID |
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USER | The process' owner |
PRI | The process' priority (the lower the number, the higher the priority) |
NI | The nice value of the process (responsible for the priority) |
VIRT | How much virtual memory is being used |
RES | How much physical RAM the process is using (measured in kilobytes) |
SHR | How much shared memory is being used |
S | The current status of the process (e.g. zombied, sleeping, running, etc.) |
CPU% | The percentage of the processor time used by the process |
MEM% | The percentage of physical RAM the process is using |
TIME+ | How much processor time has been used by the process |
COMMAND | The name of the command that started the process |
Key or key combination | Alternative(s) | Function |
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[F1] | [?] or [h] | Displays the help menu |
[F2] | [Shift] + [s] | Opens the configuration menu |
[F3] | [/] | Opens the search process |
[F4] | [] | Filters the processes according to name |
[F5] | [t] | Activates/deactivates the tree view |
[F6] | [>] | Opens the sort menu |
[F7] | ] | Reduces the nice value of the selected process |
[F8] | [ | Increases the nice value of the selected process |
[F9] | [k] | Ends the selected process |
[F10] | [q] or [Strg] + [c] | Ends htop |
[Space bar] | Tags the selected process(es) | |
[Shift] + [u] | Removes all tags | |
[Shift] + [p] | Sorts processes according to CPU usage (CPU%) | |
[Shift] + [m] | Sorts processes according to memory usage (MEM%) | |
[Shift] + [t] | Sorts processes according to processor time (TIME+) | |
[u] | Allows a particular user to be selected | |
[Shift] + [k] | Hides kernel threads (system-specific) | |
[Shift] + [h] | Hides user threads (application-specific) | |
[Shift] + [f] | Attaches the cursor to the selected process |