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henry
Asked: 2014-01-06 13:30:04 +0800 CST

How can I save the view to sort by CPU usage?

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Can I somehow modify htop's default view to display processes sorted by CPU usage? I want htop to "remember" my view/sort method.

If it's relevant, I'm currently on Xubuntu 13.10.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Run htop, press F6, select CPU%.

    Quit by using F10

    If it doesn't remember your settings check your ~/.config/htop/htoprc file if it is writable by your user. You might make it writable like this:

    chown $USER ~/.config/htop/htoprc

    Or you can try removing it and let htop generate a new one, maybe the old one is corrupted somehow.

    rm ~/.config/htop/htoprc
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  2. I noticed I had to actually quit properly using F10 and not Ctrl + C for htop to save the sort by column.

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  3. Other solutions are better, but if all else fails, you can make an alias for htop -s PERCENT_CPU.

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