Since version 2.0, htop is now cross-platform! Check out the video and slides of Hisham's presentation at FOSDEM 2016 about how this came to be. The current releases support Linux, FreeBSD, …

Building htop is straightforward, as it uses GNU Autotools: the typical ./configure; make; sudo make install should do the trick. However, you may prefer to use binaries packaged for your distribution, …

I believe the number displayed by htop is a more meaningful metric of resources used: the number corresponds to the green bars; the blue and brown bars correspond to buffers and cache, …

And thanks to htop's 4-column display mode, you can fit even more cores in a screen with ease and still have left for process information: here's a POWER8 machine with 176 cores!

Thanks to Alexander Wessel, see htop in action during the opening day of the cup qualifiers in Auckland, New Zealand. Another video shows more detail shots of htop and features some sound bites from …

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A fundraiser summer job: port it to Mac OS X “the right way” reached 1/3 of its goal so I decided not to port it to the Mac, but to at least make htop portable