the.com/htop
top, but for people who deserve colors and a mouse.
means an interactive terminal tool that shows running processes, cpu per core, and memory usage in real time.
from written in 2004 by hisham muhammad, a brazilian developer annoyed that top could not sort by memory or scroll, so he built the fix in ncurses.
licensegplv2, fully open source since day one
mouse supportyou can click to kill a process
tree viewshows parent-child process hierarchy visually
for instance
docker containers — devs run htop inside containers to debug runaway memory
raspberry pi projects — hobbyists watch cpu cores throttle in real time
linux server admins — first command typed after ssh-ing into a slow box