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Install htop
htop provides a graphical view of processor and memory capability and usage. It is pretty handy on the MFEL to work out if the limit of the processor(s) is being reached. It's a much more capable indicator of resource usage than the MFEL GUI performance indicator.
Install Htop Using Binary Packages in Linux
To install Htop on RHEL 7/6/5 and CentOS 7/6/5, your system must have EPEL repository installed and enabled, to do so run the following commands on your respective distributions to install and enable it for your system architecture (32bit or 64bit).
On RHEL/CentOS – 32-bit OS
————– For RHEL/CentOS 6 ————–
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -ihv epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
————– For RHEL/CentOS 5 ————–
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm rpm -ihv epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
On RHEL/CentOS – 64-bit OS
————– For RHEL/CentOS 7 ————–
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm rpm -ihv epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
————– For RHEL/CentOS 6 ————–
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -ihv epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
————– For RHEL/CentOS 5 ————–
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm rpm -ihv epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
Once EPEL repository has been installed, you can hit the following yum command to fetch and install the htop package as shown.
yum install htop
On Fedora OS
Fedora users can easily install htop using Fedora Extras repository by typing:
yum install htop dnf install htop [On Fedora 22+ releases]
On Debian and Ubuntu
In Debian and Ubuntu, you can fetch htop by typing:
sudo apt-get install htop
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Setting up Install Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.vorboss.net * epel: epel.check-update.co.uk * extras: mirror.vorboss.net * updates: www.mirrorservice.org Resolving Dependencies –> Running transaction check —> Package htop.x86_64 0:1.0.3-1.el6 will be installed –> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing: htop x86_64 1.0.3-1.el6 epel 83 k
Transaction Summary
Install 1 Package(s)
Total download size: 83 k Installed size: 178 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: htop-1.0.3-1.el6.x86_64.rpm | 83 kB 00:00 warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 0608b895: NOKEY Retrieving key from file:/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 Importing GPG key 0x0608B895: Userid : EPEL (6) epel@fedoraproject.org Package: epel-release-6-8.noarch (installed) From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 Is this ok [y/N]: y Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : htop-1.0.3-1.el6.x86_64 1/1 Verifying : htop-1.0.3-1.el6.x86_64 1/1 Installed: htop.x86_64 0:1.0.3-1.el6 Complete!