Htop on centos
When it comes to monitoring the cpu and ram usage on your linux machine, htop is the best tool to use. It is an ncurses based commandline too that does not require any gui like desktop, but still provides a very interactive and featureful interface to monitor processes running on the system along with other details like cpu usage, ram usage etc. It is a must have when you want to monitor the resources of your linux server over an ssh connection for example.
On centos/redhat, the htop tool is not available in the yum repository by default. But the rpm is easily available for download from here
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/htop/
The url has rpm packages for various versions of redhat and centos and both 32bit and 64bit architectures. Download the one that is suitable for your os version.
I am using centos 6.4 so I would download
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/htop/htop-1.0.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Download the rpm file on your centos machine and install with the rpm command
# rpm -i htop-1.0.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Now launch htop and monitor the resources like a pro.
If you are running centos from the terminal then you can use the lynx browser to navigate to the website and download the file.
Install from RpmForge
Htop and many other packages are available...
Read full post here
Install htop on centos 6.4
When it comes to monitoring the cpu and ram usage on your linux machine, htop is the best tool to use. It is an ncurses based commandline too that does not require any gui like desktop, but still provides a very interactive and featureful interface to monitor processes running on the system along with other details like cpu usage, ram usage etc. It is a must have when you want to monitor the resources of your linux server over an ssh connection for example.
On centos/redhat, the htop tool is not available in the yum repository by default. But the rpm is easily available for download from here
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/htop/
The url has rpm packages for various versions of redhat and centos and both 32bit and 64bit architectures. Download the one that is suitable for your os version.
I am using centos 6.4 so I would download
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/htop/htop-1.0.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Download the rpm file on your centos machine and install with the rpm command
# rpm -i htop-1.0.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Now launch htop and monitor the resources like a pro.
If you are running centos from the terminal then you can use the lynx browser to navigate to the website and download the file.
Install from RpmForge
Htop and many other packages are available...
Read full post here
Install htop on centos 6.4