Htop Columns, Meters, Threads, and Display Options

Customize meters, visible columns, threads, kernel tasks, and display density for different monitoring scenarios.

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## Columns and meters
Choose visible columns
F2 → Columns

# Open setup and enable or reorder columns.

Change top meters
F2 → Meters

# Customize CPU, memory, swap, and other header meters.

Toggle kernel threads
K

# Show or hide kernel threads.

Toggle userland threads
H

# Show or hide user threads.

Tree view plus thread settings
t, H, K

# Use tree mode and thread visibility together when investigating process structure.

Show only one account's workload
htop -u app

# Launch htop already scoped to an application user.

## Display options
Use monochrome output
htop -C

# Start htop without colors.

Use faster refresh intervals
htop -d 5

# Increase refresh speed for short spikes.

Search long command lines on crowded hosts
/ then type query

# Open search while keeping the full-screen UI.

Sort by memory usage interactively
F6 → PERCENT_MEM

# Surface memory-heavy processes first.

Follow the selected process
F

# Keep the selection on a moving target as the list refreshes.

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