Most of the people will be familiar with the top command that is used to check the processes running in our linux distro and it also gives vital information like memory usage, cpu usage etc. But most of the cases it seems that the top command itself is not enough and I often feel that the top utility is not that much accurate. This started me looking for a better command line alternative for top. Thus I stumbled upon an awesome command line system monitor utility called "htop".
Htop is, according to its
website is "an interactive process viewer for linux". It is written in C programming language and it uses ncurses library. It is created to overcome the usability issues and limitations of the top utility in linux. It is created by Hisham H. Muhammad and he has named it after him. That is htop is the short name for Hisham's top.
In short we can tell that htop is an advanced version of top which we can even use mouse to control it. There are many more options given in htop which is easy to use. I always felt that htop is much more accurate than top. Let's have a look at the differences between top and htop and other functionalities.
