In htop I would like to order processes by CPU utilization but the top processes bounce back and forth so it is difficult to view the details of each process. I would like to be able to sort in whatever preferred order then lock that order while each field continues to update.
Is it possible to freeze task order in htop
htoptop
Best Answer
A similar question was asked on superuser in February https://superuser.com/questions/1036978/how-pause-list-of-process-in-htop
The accepted answer is to use the
-d
option to change the delay of the refresh.From the man page:
e.g.
htop -d 100
to refresh every 10 seconds.Judging by this bug report there is currently no way to pause htop completely. The suggestion is again to use the
-d
option. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821904