I try find a specific process by pid, in htop, the search function toggled by F3, seems can't do this.
I type in 512, instead of 512 process, the process with pid 710 is highlighted.
Sometimes I need to kill a process and for that purpose I enter htop, search (/) for some string and then intend to kill the associated process.
The problem is that usually the processes are in motion (due to new processes being added and attributes changing) - so by the time I pressed F9 and went on with "killing" the process the selected process is already a different one.
Is there a way to handle this?
The reason why I use htop is of course b/c I sometimes have to guess which is the right process to get rid of and just a string is not sufficient for identification.
I have a long list of processes displayed in htop, but I am only interested in one of them. As old processes terminate and new processes are spawned, htop keeps updating the displayed list of processes, which means that the one process I am interested in keeps jumping up and down the list.
Is it possible to disable this behavior somehow?
That is, I would like to anchor the scroll to this particular process. How can I do this?
How can I display only the processes of a specified user in htop?
Applying a filter (F4) doesn't seem to work, because it doesn't seem to apply the filter on the USER column.
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.