Easier process management with htop

I recently discovered htop — a command line tool that offers a more ‘human friendly’ interface than top to monitor processes (and their resource usage on your server).

It’s got some useful features like:

• Visual representation of your server’s used/available resources.
• Easy ways to filter / sort processes.
• Easy ways to kill or reprioritise processes.

How to install htop on Ubuntu

Installing on Ubuntu with apt-get is quick and easy:

sudo apt-get install htop

Then to run the program:

htop