On 23 June 2013 22:05,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> htop is a fantastic tool and thanks to Hisham for creating it.
>
> I have run into only one issue that is a bit confusing and hoping there is a
> way to filter, disable, or represent a different way.
>
> htop appears to be enumerating through /proc/<pid>/task/<tid> and listing
> the threads of a process as individual child PIDs.
>
> Starting up one of our tomcat server processes for example, htop will show
> over 90 child PIDs when in reality this is a single PID with no children.
> At first we started looking for these child PIDs and of course these don't
> exist and are actually Thread ID's (TID) of the single process.
>
> I would like to get htop in to the hands of our support staff but need to be
> able to turn off TIDs for now.
> Is this possible?
>
> Threads of a process are an interesting statistic but in the future could
> they be represented differently to distinguish them from PIDs?
>
> Some suggestions:
> A column with total # of threads (TIDs) that a process has.
> Expand/Collapse just TIDs of a process in tree view
> Colorize those lines in the htop list as TIDs

Go to Setup [F2], select "Display Options" and then check "[x] Hide
userland threads" or [x] Display threads in a different color".

Cheers!

-- Hisham

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