# hishamhm/htop

htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.

Repository: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hishamhm-htop
Language: C
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: c, terminal, process-monitor, htop, tui, system, console, console-application, linux, freebsd, openbsd, macos
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-11-17T07:00:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4615, "days_push": 2115, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5895, forks 571 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:32.021470+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, terminal-ui, cli
- domain: developer-tools, monitoring
- platform: bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: process-viewer, system-monitoring, tui, top-alternative, c, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- hishamhm/htop (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.021470+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:51:32.005372+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.021470+00:00, sha 2b7814d3fca2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.