htop author here. No, there’s no “nice” way to get the output of htop piped into a file. It is an interactive application and uses terminal redraw routines to produce its interface (therefore, piping it makes as much sense as, for example, piping vim into a text file — you’ll get similar results). To get … Read more
First install the prctl module. (On debian/ubuntu just type sudo apt-get install python-prctl) from threading import Thread import time import prctl def sleeper(): prctl.set_name(“sleeping tiger”) while True: time.sleep(10) print “sleeping” t = Thread(target=sleeper, name=”Sleeper01″) t.start() t.join() This prints $ ps -T PID SPID TTY TIME CMD 22684 22684 pts/29 00:00:00 bash 23302 23302 pts/29 00:00:00 … Read more
htop adds an exclamation mark if the uptime is greater than 100 days. From: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/0e8a02367ec7ca8f52b10de70938dfd07faed3ab/UptimeMeter.c#L41
Use watch: watch docker ps See man watch
Search Press F3 or / and start typing in the process name to search: highlights closest matching result amongst all entries. Filter If you only want results matching your query to be shown, you could filter instead: press F4 or \ to filter From the htop manual: F3, /: Incrementally search the command lines of … Read more
htop author here. Does server #1 have more memory available than server #2? Yes. From the htop faq: The memory meter in htop says a low number, such as 9%, when top shows something like 90%! (Or: the MEM% number is low, but the bar looks almost full. What’s going on?) The number showed by … Read more
Actually, it’s just that htop by default shows each thread as a separate process. You can add the line hide_userland_threads=1 to your ~/.config/htop/htoprc file to show only one line. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10362/why-does-htop-show-more-process-than-ps
NetHogs is probably what you’re looking for: a small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire … Read more