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. 2.4 Switch to tree view or ordered viewįirst we are going to update the cache of the package repositories of our Ubuntu operating system by writing the following command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T): sudo apt-get update.

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