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Add htop useage and a screenshot.

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To view how much RAM is being used on your system is under mem and then a [ number based on how many Gigabytes of memory. The Swap line lists how much swap is used. The numbers going down with a bar with a percentage next to them display useage on each of your cpu cores.
Load average shows your system laod over the past one five and fiften minute is why there are three numbers see `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)` for more infmormation. Uptime shows how long your computer has been booted.
After the bottom there is a green bar that says PID for the Process ID of a user, The user the process responds to, RES is how much RAM the process is currently using. CPU% shows how much as a percent of CPU time the process is using, mem% is a precent of the RAM your proess is using. TIme shows how long the process has been running. COmmand shows the command line command of the process.
You can press F1 to help you with settings on htop. F2 brings about a customizeable settings on htop. F3 lets you search for a particular process. F4 makes it so you can only see processes matching a certain partern. F5 is what you press to veiw file in a tree. PRessing F9 lets you kill a process with different signals to send to the process and 15 will terminate the process while 9 will Kill it. Lastly F10 will quit htop and return you to a terminal.
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.. image:: htop.png
:width: 80%
Version
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Lubuntu ships with version 2.2.0 of htop.
How to launch
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To launch htop from the menu -> system tools -> htop with the Icon that looks like the green H made out of text.
To launch htop from the menu -> system tools -> htop with the Icon that looks like the green H made out of text or you can run htop from the command line.