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-.TH "HTOP" "1" "2023" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "User Commands"
+.TH "HTOP" "1" "2024" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "User Commands"
.SH "NAME"
htop, pcp-htop \- interactive process viewer
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
@@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ Hide user threads: on systems that represent them differently than ordinary
processes (such as recent NPTL-based systems), this can hide threads from
userspace processes in the process list. (This is a toggle key.)
.TP
+.B O
+Hide containerized processes: prevent processes running in a container
+from being displayed in the process list. (This is a toggle key.)
+.TP
.B p
Show full paths to running programs, where applicable. (This is a toggle key.)
.TP
@@ -449,6 +453,11 @@ resident memory size, see M_RESIDENT above).
.B USER
The username of the process owner, or the user ID if the name can't be
determined.
+
+On Linux the username is highlighted if the process has elevated privileges,
+i.e. if it has been started from binaries with file capabilities set or
+retained Linux capabilities, via the ambient set, after switching from the
+root user.
.TP
.B TIME (TIME+)
The time, measured in clock ticks that the process has spent in user and system
@@ -593,7 +602,7 @@ By default
.B htop
reads its configuration from the XDG-compliant path
.IR ~/.config/htop/htoprc .
-The configuration file is overwritten by
+The configuration file is overwritten upon clean exit by
.BR htop 's
in-program Setup configuration, so it should not be hand-edited.
If no user configuration exists
@@ -635,15 +644,24 @@ can also be displayed by
if the
.BR pmdaopenmetrics (1)
component is configured.
+.LP
+The configuration for both
+.B htop
+and
+.B pcp-htop
+is only saved when a clean exit is performed. Sending any signal will cause
+.I all configuration changes to be lost.
.SH "MEMORY SIZES"
Memory sizes in
.B htop
are displayed in a human-readable form.
-Sizes are printed in powers of 1024. (e.g., 1023M = 1072693248 Bytes)
+Sizes are printed in powers of 1024 using binary IEC units.
+If no suffix is shown the units are implicitly K as in KiB (kibibyte, 1 KiB = 1024 bytes).
.LP
The decision to use this convention was made in order to conserve screen
space and make memory size representations consistent throughout
-.BR htop .
+.B htop
+as allocations are granular to full memory pages (4 KiB for most platforms).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR proc (5),
.BR top (1),
@@ -669,7 +687,7 @@ communities, and forms part of the Performance Co-Pilot suite of tools.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright \(co 2004-2019 Hisham Muhammad.
.br
-Copyright \(co 2020-2023 htop dev team.
+Copyright \(co 2020-2024 htop dev team.
.LP
License GPLv2+: GNU General Public License version 2 or, at your option, any later version.
.LP

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