What Back-End Does Htop Use?


jakolineplayer@...
 

Hey, I would like to know how are memory and CPU consumptionsĀ calculated by Htop? Or what back-end does Htop relies on?


Nathan Scott
 

On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 9:50 AM jakolineplayer via groups.io
<jakolineplayer@...> wrote:

Hey, I would like to know how are memory and CPU consumptions calculated by Htop?
Or what back-end does Htop relies on?
htop uses system calls directly to obtain this information. This code
is platform-specific, so there's different code for each platform, but
for example on Linux:

https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/master/linux/Platform.c

cheers.

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Nathan