Questions tagged [htop]
htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses.
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Htop with memory swap but no process are swapping
My htop page shows some swap but seems no processes are swapping.
How to understand what is swapping? I'm working in ubuntu server 22.04
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Why is htop showing a lot of "kernel" activity?
Is it normal to see this much "kernel" activity on a server that is not currently running anything (at least at the user/application layer)?
According to this link the red portion of the ...
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How to disable F9 (process kill) option in htop
Is it possible to remove or disable only the F9 (process kill) option from htop? I have gone through the man pages and documentation, and all the layout options seem to be related to process/columns, ...
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Ubuntu high processor utilization with no identifiable processes consuming processor [duplicate]
Ubuntu host with 100% utilization in top or htop.
When I inspect the running processes, I don't see a process consuming a significant amount of CPU resources.
I've tried using commands like top, htop, ...
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Multiple instances of app in htop
Why does htop show two instances of my GUI app TradeClient?
while I started only one instance?
System: Ubuntu 22.04 VPS with X11 (I connect with VNC)
What is its CPU usage?
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htop -t
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how much data does htop transfer from remote?
If I am connected by ssh to a machine running htop, how do I calculate how much data the htop process is sending from the remote to the machine with ssh terminal?
For example having htop open for a ...
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Linux: 100 Mi RAM free but no processes with high-memory usage
A Debian Bullseye server is using almost 100% RAM quantity (7.65G / 7.79 G):
But there are no processes with more than 0.0% memory usage
DEV root@postgres2 ~# free -h
total used ...
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Bridge interface causes high CPU utilization
We are facing a weird issue with a server we have on our laboratory. Specifically, the server shows high CPU utilization from low priority processes (blue color in htop) with 50% of the cores ...
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Pink in memory htop
What does the pink color in memory htop means and how can I reset it?
You can see example here:
htop preview
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ubuntu htop half of cores in blue 100%
I had try to reboot my server with two e5-2637v3 cpu.
does blue mean nothing to do?
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Memory usage: big difference in `free -m` and htop as well calculation of used memory in htop compared from /proc/meminfo
I'm aware of this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41224738/how-to-calculate-system-memory-usage-from-proc-meminfo-like-htop
Answer seems outdated regarding memory usage and this question ...
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100% CPU usage reported, but no processes using the CPU
I am running Debian 10 (kernel 4.19.0-18-amd64) on bare metal and I have recently noticed strange CPU usage.
Screenshot of htop, sorted by CPU%
Screenshot of top, sorted by CPU%
As you can see, 100% ...
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Multiple core overload on Ubuntu
I have a really strange behavior of the server. I run Apache, MySQL, WordPress on it. And recently, it has had a lot of freezes. MySQL/Apache shows high CPU usage (out of 24 cores - 2400% cpu% ...
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Load average explanation for multi-core systems
I'm trying to understand the Load average in my Debian system. I've read some explanations of the displayed values and I came to understand that the number represents how "overloaded" my ...
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Where is my memory being consumed? [duplicate]
I have a Ubuntu 20.04 server which is reporting relatively low free RAM:
top - 11:28:31 up 5 days, 20:12, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.27
Tasks: 268 total, 1 running, 267 sleeping, 0 ...
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