{"id":28159,"date":"2017-11-01T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28159"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:15:45","slug":"htop-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/01\/htop-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"htop explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/htop.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28160\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/01\/htop-explained\/htop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/htop.png?fit=973%2C546&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"973,546\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"htop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/htop.png?fit=660%2C370&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/htop-500x281.png?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/htop.png?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/htop.png?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/htop.png?w=973&amp;ssl=1 973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/peteris.rocks\/blog\/htop\/\">htop explained<\/a>&#8221; is a very detailed guide into the htop Linux system monitoring tool.\u00a0 Even if you are an experienced Linux user, and even if you are not a fan of htop (why aren&#8217;t you?), you will still find this guide useful, as it goes into a lot of detail on how htop figures out all the values and where Linux keeps bits and pieces of system information.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>&#8220;htop explained&#8221; is a very detailed guide into the htop Linux system monitoring tool.\u00a0 Even if you are an experienced Linux user, and even if you are not a fan of htop (why aren&#8217;t you?), you will still find this guide useful, as it goes into a lot of detail on how htop figures out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/01\/htop-explained\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">htop explained<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"htop explained #Linux #SysAdmin #CLI #monitoring #performance","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[1960,127,1531,1057,253],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-command-line","tag-monitoring","tag-operating-systems","tag-performance","tag-unix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;htop explained&quot; is a very detailed guide into the htop Linux system monitoring tool. 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