hishamhm/htop
htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4615
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2115
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
5895 stars · 571 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems, written in C. It provides a richer, more user-friendly alternative to the classic 'top' command with real-time process monitoring in the terminal.
Use cases
- monitor running processes in the terminal
- find which process is using the most CPU or memory
- kill or renice processes interactively
- view per-core CPU usage and memory meters
- replace top with a better process viewer
- inspect process trees on Linux or BSD servers
When to choose
- you need an interactive, keyboard-driven process monitor on Unix systems
- you want a more readable and feature-rich alternative to top
- you are administering Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or macOS machines over SSH
When to avoid
- you need GUI-based system monitoring with graphs and dashboards
- you require deep per-process diagnostics beyond what a process viewer offers
- you need monitoring on Windows
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
monitoring terminal-ui cli developer-tools monitoring bsd cli cross-platform process-viewer system-monitoring tui top-alternative c command-line linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2b7814d3fca2
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| hishamhm/htop | main | 10 |
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