{"id":7423,"date":"2019-07-06T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2019-07-06T07:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:29:38","slug":"check-the-memory-usage-of-droplet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/check-the-memory-usage-of-droplet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install htop to Check the Droplet&#8217;s Memory Usage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To check the droplet\u2019s memory usage you will need to install htop process monitoring tool.<\/p>\n<h3>Installation of htop on Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<p>1. Login to your server.<\/p>\n<p>2. Execute the below command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">sudo apt-get install htop<\/pre>\n<p>This will help you to know which programs are consuming more RAM.<\/p>\n<p>3. You will see the memory usage in htop just below the CPU statistics. Memory monitoring is displayed in the form of progress bars with multiple colors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Green:<\/strong> It is the percentage of RAM consumed by memory pages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blue:<\/strong> It is the percentage of RAM consumed by buffer pages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Orange:<\/strong> It is the percentage of RAM consumed by cache pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. Below is the detailed process information in htop about memory:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VIR<\/strong> \u2013 It indicates the virtual memory that a process is consuming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>RES<\/strong> \u2013 It indicates the physical memory that a process is consuming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SHR<\/strong> \u2013 It indicates the shared memory that a process is consuming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MEM%<\/strong> &#8211; It indicates the percentage of memory consumed by each process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5. You can check the memory consumption using the shortcut key <strong>\u2018M\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Installation of htop on CentOS<\/h3>\n<p>You can install htop on CentOS using yum.<\/p>\n<p>1. Execute below command to add <strong>EPEL repository<\/strong> to the yum package manager:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum -y install epel-release\r\nyum -y update<\/pre>\n<p>2. After adding the repository, you can ask yum to install the htop process monitoring tool:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum -y install htop<\/pre>\n<p>3. If the installation is done successfully, you should be able to type htop in the command line and view the status of your system.<\/p>\n<p>In this way you can install htop process monitoring tool on Ubuntu and CentOS to check your droplet\u2019e memory usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To check the droplet\u2019s memory usage you will need to install htop process monitoring tool. Installation of htop on Ubuntu 1. Login to your server. 2. Execute the below command: sudo apt-get install htop This will help you to know which programs are consuming more RAM. 3. 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