Install htop in Linux- Redhat/CentOS/SL and Debian/Ubuntu Rumi, February 18, 2013 There are times you want to have a better control over the system processes and usage and also having a better visual of RAM and CPU usage on your server.As You may already know there is a Linux command called top which will show the resources and users cpu usage but it is not good enough to find out every thing in a glance, That for example you should go to the top right to see cpu usage let say it is 50%, then you have to think of your self in your mind that how much it has used the cpu.But by using htop you can see CPU usage of each core colorful and easily.This third party application will work perfectly on Centos Servers. Install HTOP from Source wget http://woshka.com/opensource/htop-0.9.tar.gz tar xzvf htop-0.9.tar.gz cd htop-0.9/ ./configure make make install CentOS 5 wget http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/htop/htop/0.8.3/htop-0.8.3.tar.gz tar xzvf htop-0.8.3.tar.gz cd htop-0.8.3 ./configure make make install Htop Installation Instruction from RPM The following will guide you through the installation of this useful statistical software both on x82(32bit) & x64(64bit) centos servers first ssh to your server and login as root Htop installation on 64bit centos version 6 RPM Package wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/htop-0.9-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -i htop-0.9-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm Htop installation on 32bit centos version 6 RPM Package wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/htop-0.9-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm Htop installation on 64bit centos RPM Package and if your linux centos version is 64bit use this instead: wget http://packages.sw.be/htop/htop-0.8.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm Htop Installation on 32bit Centos RPM Package rpm -i htop-0.8.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm wget http://packages.sw.be/htop/htop-0.8.3-1.rh9.rf.i386.rpm For Debian/Ubuntu distro, use the following command to get it installed- apt-get install htop done! How to Use htop for using htop you can simply run htop command htop also there are some other options for example the delay time that is -d htop -d 2 Administrations Configurations (Linux)