
Of course, you can choose any other signal using the keys' arriba'Y' down'. To kill a process, the default signal for htop is TARGET TERM. These signals are used to manage Gnu / Linux processes. In the marked section, there are different signs listed. You should see the htop screen as shown below: Now to kill the process, press the 'F9' key. Select the process by doing it in the same way as indicated in the previous section. Let's say that the PID 2382 is the one of the process that we want to kill. First select a process using the arrow keys' arriba'Y' down'I looking for a process using the key' F3'. We can also kill processes with htop utility. Once you find the process you are looking for, press' Intro'to select it. To go to the next process from Firefox or to the search result, press' again F3'. We can see that the id, in this case, the process (PID) is 2382 and is owned by the user sapoclay. You should see the selected firefox process as shown in the screenshot above. A search box should appear as shown in the screenshot below. For example, suppose we want to find the process 'firefox'.įirst press the 'F3' key. With this tool we will be able search for a specific process. We will be able to find at the same time how much swap space is available and how much space is used.Īs you can see, on this computer I have 7.78 GB of available RAM and 2.31 GB used. We can also find how much main memory or RAM is available and how much is used. You can see that this computer has 4 cores in my processor with different percentages of use. We will also be able to find the amount of CPU used.

As you can see, my laptop has been running for 59 minutes and 44 seconds.

In the section marked in the above screenshot, you can see the team uptime.

To start let's see the htop program interface. Now run the following command to start htop: To install htop, run the following command in the same terminal: sudo apt-get install htopĪfter this htop should be installed in our system. Once the package repository cache is updated we will see that htop is available in the official Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark repository.
