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+---
+title: "htop"
+category: "Desktop and system"
+tagline: "The classic interactive process viewer for the terminal."
+source: "pacman"
+package: "htop"
+command: "htop"
+website: "https://htop.dev/"
+code: "https://github.com/htop-dev/htop"
+---
+
+## What it is
+
+htop is an interactive process viewer: a better `top`. It lists running processes with their CPU and memory use, shows meters for each CPU core and for memory and swap, and lets you sort, search, filter, show processes as a tree, and send signals to stop one, all from the keyboard.
+
+## Why it's here
+
+- **Everywhere.** It's on nearly every Linux server, so it's worth knowing.
+- **Quick to drive.** The function keys along the bottom do the common jobs.
+- **Light.** It starts instantly and uses almost nothing itself.
+
+## On CoreDesktop
+
+htop is installed from pacman, with nothing extra configured. Run `htop` in a terminal and press <kbd>F10</kbd> or <kbd>q</kbd> to quit. `update` keeps it current.