Press “e” to print the set of environment variables for a process.In htop you no longer needed to enter process number or priority value to re-nice a process.In htop you can kill more than one processes at once without inserting their PIDs.

It starts very quickly as compared top, because it doesn’t wait to fetch data during startup.

In htop you can scroll vertically to view the full process list, and scroll horizontally to view the full command lines.

Htop has numerous other user-friendly features, which are not available under top command and they are: Htop is an interactive real time process monitoring application for Linux/Unix like systems and also a handy alternative to top command, which is default process monitoring tool that comes with pre-installed on all Linux operating systems. This article is the continuation of our Linux system monitoring series, today we’re talking about the most popular monitoring tool called htop, which is just reached to version 2.0.2 and comes with some cool new features.

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