What is Htop?
Htop is an interactive and real time process monitoring application for Linux. It shows complete list of processes running and easy to use for normal tasks. We can interact with mouse those who love to play with mouse. You can scroll vertically to view the full process list, and scroll horizontally to view the full command line of the process.
Install Htop for RHEL, CentOS & Fedora
Let us install Htop on RHEL 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 17,16,15,14,13,12 Linux via the yum package manager, the rpmforge package repository must be installed on your system to retrieve and install. To do just install the following RPM for your architecture (32bit or 64bit).
For RHEL, CentOS & Fedora 32-bit OS
## For RHEL 5, CentOS 5 & Fedora ## # wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm # rpm -ihv rpmforge-release*.rf.i386.rpm ## For RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 # wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm # rpm -ihv rpmforge-release*.rf.i686.rpm
For RHEL, CentOS & Fedora 64-bit OS
## For RHEL 5, CentOS 5 & Fedora ## # wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm # rpm -ihv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm ## For RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 # wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm # rpm -ihv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm
Once RPMforge repository is installed. Now start installation with yum command.
# yum install htop
Now run the htop monitoring tool by executing following command on the terminal.
# htop