hishamhm/htop
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htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.
18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 4 stories, 14 comments · first 2015-10-03 · latest 2026-01-14
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…files from /proc to get memory stats (/proc/meminfo), network I/O, or per-process limits. See here https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/master/linux/LinuxProc... .
comment by jonasn · 2026-01-14 · in A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap -
https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682#issuecomment-377... (the htop issue) says "according to others above, Apple has seemingly fixed this in 10.13.4."
comment by eesmith · 2022-12-09 · in I think I found a Mac kernel bug (2018) -
PSI is a perfect fit for htop. I sent a PR to add it some time ago ( https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/pull/890 ) but it hasn't been merged yet.
comment by bluetech · 2019-11-01 · in Htop Explained -
…setup (F2). It works for CPU, RAM, load, swap… gtop [2] does that too for CPU, RAM and network [1] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop [2] https://github.com/aksakalli/gtop
comment by Arkanosis · 2018-09-28 · in S-tui: Stress Terminal UI -
…resource (which didn't happen while being run as root). It was fixed in macOS 10.13.4 / htop 2.2.0 https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/commit/b2771218 https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682
comment by lloeki · 2018-08-31 · in CLI: Improved -
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Ask HN: Crashing High Sierra with Serial?story by shakna · 2018-01-31 · 0 comments
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Sounds very similar to https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682
comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2018-01-28 · in I think I found a Mac kernel bug? -
…a memory bug at all. In reality there appears to be an infinite loop in calls to task_for_pid: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682#issuecomment-355... . I'm still not sure who's doing the wrong thing, htop or Apple, but it's clear…
comment by saagarjha · 2018-01-06 · in Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra -
…topic is about [0], explicitly because the freezes and crashes are very real and reproducible. [0]: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682#issuecomment-355...
comment by bangonkeyboard · 2018-01-06 · in Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra -
…the bug doesn't always happen but there are some things that can be done to reliably trigger it. https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682#issuecomment-341...
comment by ufo · 2018-01-06 · in Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra -
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Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierrastory by alpb · 2018-01-06 · 233 comments
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Htop Crashes All Terminals and Activity Monitor in MacOS High Sierrastory by masonlong · 2017-12-29 · 0 comments
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Htop Crashing on MacOS High Sierrastory by jor-el · 2017-11-24 · 0 comments
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wow, 768 cores is a lot of cores! you can try posting an issue here? https://github.com/hishamhm/htop
comment by etiene · 2017-01-31 · in Htop Explained Visually -
…* freebsd and openbsd use sysctl({CTL_VM, VM_LOADAVG})[1][2] * OSX uses getloadavg(3)[3] [0] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/master/linux/Platform.... [1] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/master/freebsd/Platfor... [2]…
comment by masklinn · 2016-02-12 · in Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform -
…htop 2.0 works on FreeBSD[0], OpenBSD[1] and OSX[2], not just "various flavours of linux". [0] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/freebsd [1] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/openbsd [2]…
comment by masklinn · 2016-02-11 · in Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform -
…< t.ansi > t.html I've requested a -b, --batch option for htop, to simplify this mode of operation. https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/282 Then you could just: $ COLUMNS=80 htop -b | ansi2html.sh ...
comment by pixelbeat · 2015-10-03 · in Using htop to generate a live website background