./sysutils/htop, Enhanced version of top utility

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.4.0, Package name: htop-3.4.0, Maintainer: nia

This is htop, an interactive process viewer.

Comparison between 'htop' and 'top'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally
to see all processes and full command lines.
* In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned
key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape
sequences are triggered by accident).
* 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while
before displaying anything).
* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to
kill a process, in 'top' you do.
* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or
the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do.
* In 'htop' you can kill multiple processes at once.
* 'top' is older, hence, more tested.


Required to run:
[sysutils/desktop-file-utils] [devel/ncursesw] [lang/python37]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: curses

Master sites:

Filesize: 417.082 KB

Version history: (Expand)


CVS history: (Expand)


   2025-03-11 23:41:11 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
htop: Regenerating ./configure no longer necessary
   2025-03-11 21:09:54 by Santhosh Raju | Files touched by this commit (9) | Package removed
Log message:
sysutils/htop: Update to 3.4.0

- Removed Solaris patch since it is contained in upstream
- Added a patch to fix build using native curses in NetBSD

Changes since 3.3.0:

What's new in version 3.4.0

* More expressive version tag generated for development versions (htop \ 
--version, help screen)
* Improve Darwin support for ARM-based systems
* Fix static linking with libsystemd
* Various build fixes for DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, NetBSD, OpenBSD & Solaris
* Fix running task display (count)
* Fix sort order handling in tree mode
* Add warning when exiting with a signal (not saving .htoprc)
* Add Disk I/O and Network I/O meter for DragonFlyBSD
* Improve handling of invalid Unicode strings
* Disable basename checking for kernel tasks
* Updated documentation for pcp-htop
* Disable FOCUS_IN/FOCUS_OUT event handling
* Add GPU meter for Linux and PCP
* Add colum for GPU time per process on Linux and PCP
* Avoid glibc FILE API voodoo
* Ignore previously unhandled signals USR1 and USR2
* Force locating the config file to only use absolute paths
* Prefer reading htoprc from ~/.config/htop/htoprc over legacy ~/.htoprc
* Force writing the configuration to a regular file
* Use distinct config files for htop and pcp-htop
* Link libnl3 at runtime
* Gather permitted capabilities via capget(2)
* Avoid fetching certain process information for each thread on Linux (speed up)
* Improved handling for invalid data in /proc/tty/drivers on Linux
* Various changes to avoid memory allocations inside signal handlers
* Add single column header layout
* Fix DivByZero bug on startup on Darwin
* Include thread information on Darwin
* Show process state on Darwin
* Update compat check for C23 compilers
* Improved detail in help screen
* Unicode support for CGROUP, CCGROUP, CONTAINER and SECATTR columns
* Mark newline characters in the process command line display
* Resolve nested derived metrics for PCP
* Make supported modes/styles specific to each meter
* Refined checks for terminals supporting to redefine keys
* Fix handling of the NICE value on FreeBSD
* Fix display of CPU utilization on FreeBSD
* Honour update interval adjustments properly without restart
* Force rebuild of display table after item removals
* Reworked handling for various temperature sensors
* Fix high CPU load when the strace'd process exits prematurely
* Document --drop-capabilities to require a compile time support
* Always call PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG in configure
* Make configure warn when pkg.m4 is absent
* Rewrite curses/terminfo detection code in configure
* Keep following a process when resuming process updates (Z key)
* Normalize Disk I/O usage and allow utilization above 100%
* Plug several memory leaks and improve performance for information parsing
* Allow to show or hide cache and buffers in memory usage meter
* Visibility hint and UX improvements in status bar of display options panel
* Remove IOKit / IOMainPort / IOMMasterPort logic for Darwin builds
* Replace BCC with metrics from BPF for pcp-htop
   2025-03-11 14:24:57 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
htop: Delint. Fixing whitespace.
   2024-05-06 10:40:34 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (113)
Log message:
*: Revision bumps for ncurses 6.5 overhaul.
   2024-02-26 10:31:52 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (8)
Log message:
htop: import illumos fixes from OmniOS CE
   2024-02-18 02:51:01 by Santhosh Raju | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
sysutils/htop: Update to 3.3.0

Changes since 3.2.2:

What's new in version 3.3.0

* Multiple refactorings and code improvements
* Shorten docker container IDs to 12 characters
* Settings: preserve empty header
* Fix execlp() argument without pointer cast
* OpenFilesScreen: Make column sizing dynamic for file size, offset and inode
* Add support for "truss" (FreeBSD equivalent of "strace")
* Darwin: add NetworkIOMeter support
* HeaderLayout: add "3 columns - 40/30/30", "... 30/40/30" \ 
& "... 30/30/40"
* Meter: use correct unicode characters for digit '9'
* Note in manual re default memory units of KiB
* Add column for process container name
* Add logic to filter the container name (+type) from the CGroup name
* Change NetworkIOMeter value unit from KiB/s to bytes/second
* Cap DiskIOMeter "utilisation" percentage at 100%
* PCP platform implementation of frontswap and zswap accounting
* Shorten podman/libpod container IDs to 12 characters
* Write configuration to temporary file first
* Incorporate shared memory in bar text
* Move shared memory next to used memory
* Correct order of memory meter in help
* Add recalculate to Ctrl-L refresh
* Update process list on thread visibility toggling
* Support dynamic screens with 'top-most' entities beyond processes
* Introduce Row and Table classes for screens beyond top-processes
* Rework ZramMeter and remove MeterClass.comprisedValues
* More robust logic for CPU process percentages (Linux & PCP)
* Show year as start time for processes older than a year
* Short-term fix for docker container detection
* default color preset: use bold blue for better visibility
* Document 'O' keyboard shortcut
* Implement logic for '--max-iterations'
* Update F5 key label on tab switch (Tree <-> List)
* Force re-sorting of the process list view after switching between \ 
list/treeview mode
* Linux: (hack) work around the fact that Zswapped pages may be SwapCached
* Linux: implement zswap support
* {Memory,Swap}Meter: add "compressed memory" metrics
* Darwin: add DiskIOMeter support
* Fix scroll relative to followed process
* ZramMeter: update bar mode
* Use shared real memory on FreeBSD
* Increase Search and Filter max string length to 128
* Improve CPU computation code
* Remove LXC special handling for the CPU count
* Create new File Descriptor meter
* PCP: add IRQ PSI meter
* Linux: add IRQ PSI meter
* Linux: highlight username if process has elevated privileges
* Add support for scheduling policies
* Add a systemd user meter to monitor user units.
* FreeBSD: remove duplicate zfs ARC size subtraction
   2022-10-04 09:14:57 by Kimmo Suominen | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
htop: Fix options for selecting curses type

Users can now select ncurses for enabling unicode characters on NetBSD.
It was not sufficient (or even correct, most likely) to use "wide-curses"
for this.
   2022-09-25 11:53:28 by Kimmo Suominen | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
htop: Add options for selecting curses type

Users can now select wide-curses for enabling unicode characters on NetBSD.