Another tool or utility which is known for monitoring process in a real-time situation or condition in Linux which is very useful to be able to see how much processes running and consuming resources of the CPU or memory is ‘htop’.
Normally, another tool which is way simpler in display shown by ‘top’ can be used to aim the purpose. But ‘htop’ on the other hand is much easier to use because the first great thing about htop is that it will show the usage per CPU, text graph of memory and swap usage right at top. It is much easier to understand what is being displayed by ‘htop’ at a glance compared to the default output from ‘top’ command.
To be able to start using htop, install the utility by executing the following command :