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Meaning of colours in htop
Given the option:
[ ] Detailed CPU time (System/IO-Wait/Hard-IRQ/Soft-IRQ/Steal/Guest)
In htop (Version 1.0.1) what are the meanings of the colours?
In the following image, I'm seeing rather a lot ...
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How can I receive top-like CPU statistics from the shell?
I'm trying to get an accurate read of my used CPU (in percent) from top. This is the command I'm running for testing:
top -n1 | awk '/Cpu\(s\):/ {print $2}'
This returns:
10.7%us,
Which is the ...
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why does htop meter show >90% while table is 0.0%?
Why do the progress meters across the top of the screen in htop show CPU usage consistently above >90% while the numbers in the table below show a nearly idle system with CPU usage and load average at ...
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top / htop; group process by command
I'd like to know how much resource a specific command is using.
top and htop displays information on per process basis but I'd like the information to be shown on per command basis. E.g. I'd like to ...
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Killing a tree of processes in top/htop
htop allows me to nicely see trees of processes within the shell. I can kill processes by pressing F9 (KILL) and then selecting which signal (e.g. 15 SIGTERM) I want to send to a job to kill.
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Change the scale of the bar graph in htop
Does anyone know of a way to change the scale of the bar graphs in htop? The memory one, specifically, doesn't seem based off of percent of memory used--it's some other scale that seems useless to ...
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Graphical console applications in Emacs
I am having trouble running htop within an ansi-term in Emacs 24.2. It looks like some of the control characters are not interpreted correctly.
I thought ansi-term was capable of handling font ...
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htop reporting much higher memory usage than free or top
The following three outputs were taken essentially simultaneously:
top:
top - 02:54:36 up 2 days, 13:50, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.09
Tasks: 181 total, 1 running, 179 sleeping, 0 ...
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How can a single thread use 200% CPU usage?
From the screenshot above of htop output you can see that mysql is apparently using 204% of CPU usage (this is a CentOS server with dual quad-core Intel Xeons).
However only one core (8) is doing ...
