Comments on: Watch & Manage System Resources with htop for Mac OS X

By: acet3chnician

acet3chnician — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:52:58 +0000

Also works well if you run htop as an alias for top. That way top always brings up htop, at least in oh-my-zsh.

By: anake

anake — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:00:20 +0000

I like getting stabbed in the eye better than macports

By: charleshb

charleshb — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:07:05 +0000

I had to install Xcode for MacPorts to work.

By: Sort top by CPU Usage to Make it More Useful

Sort top by CPU Usage to Make it More Useful — Sat, 14 May 2011 05:28:10 +0000

[...] you could just install htop for Mac OS X through MacPorts or Homebrew. htop is superior to top in many ways, but because it requires [...]

By: Sebastian Kusnier

Sebastian Kusnier — Sat, 07 May 2011 08:30:15 +0000

I have always a htop open in my Visor Terminal (A Quake-style drop-down Terminal)

http://visor.binaryage.com/

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:00:36 +0000

Nice to hear about htop! Not so nice to hear the suggestion that one should install it via Mac Ports. Frankly Mac Ports sucks, you will end up with tons of dependencies installed that do nothing for you.

Not to complain but a tool like this really needs to be 100% Mac native and only dependent upon installed software. That is the base Mac OS/X system. So while htop is a cool idea, having to install tons of crap isn’t.

By: roy_hu

roy_hu — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:58:42 +0000

It has htop, but I haven’t tried it.

$ brew info htop
htop HEAD
http://htop.sourceforge.net/
Not installed

For htop to display correctly all running processes, it needs to run as root.
If you don’t want to `sudo htop` every time, change the owner and permissions:
cd /usr/local/Cellar/htop/HEAD/bin
chmod 6555 htop
sudo chown root htop

http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/htop.rb

By: nobrainer

nobrainer — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:11:32 +0000

I tried that, still no go.
Could it be because I’m using Xcode 4.x on 10.6 server? (trying to track down a memory leak)

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:48:27 +0000

Does Homebrew have htop though? I thought it didn’t work?

By: roy_hu

roy_hu — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:37:07 +0000

I like homebrew better than MacPorts.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:32:00 +0000

If you just installed MacPorts for the first time, you need to open a new shell for the command to work.

By: nobrainer

nobrainer — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:40:41 +0000

I get port htop not found…

when I went to sourceforge i checked out the svn but can’t run it. macports did load however…