htop-2.1.1_enhanced-version

An enhanced version of htop 2.1.0 to monitor the system health of your big.LITTLE arm64 core.

Monitor the health of your RK3399 board Real-Time and watch CPU Temp, CPU VCore and CPU Freq (big.LITTLE) to find out when throttling occurs and which task is time-consuming.

Screenshot of NanoPi M4 (arm64)

Installing Deb Package

Deb package for Bionic (Ubuntu 18.04) arm64. It may work on Debian, but i have not tested it

• Install htop-2.1.1 deb package

    git clone https://github.com/avafinger/htop-2.1.1_enhanced-version
    cd htop-2.1.1_enhanced-version/htop
    sudo dpkg -i htop_2.1.1-3_arm64.deb
  

Building the package from source code

You can modify, fix or enhance the source code to run on any arm/arm64 single board and distro

• Build the package

    cd htop-2.1.1_enhanced-version/htop/htop-2.1.1/
    sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us
  

• Deb packages

    ll ../
    -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   267K Oct 13 20:56 htop-dbgsym_2.1.1-3_arm64.ddeb
    -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   5.3K Oct 13 20:56 htop_2.1.1-3_arm64.buildinfo
    -rw-r--r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu 1.3K Oct 13 20:56 htop_2.1.1-3_arm64.changes
    -rw-r--r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu  74K Oct 13 20:56 htop_2.1.1-3_arm64.deb
  

• Install

    cd ..
    sudo dpkg -i htop_2.1.1-3_arm64.deb
  

Before you build the package, make sure you install all depencies:

    sudo apt-get install dbhelper libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev python-minimal:native

Running htop-2.1.1

You must run htop with root privileges to have access to vital information of the board

• Run: sudo htop

• To Display CPU Freq, CPU Temp. and CPU VCore (big.LITTLE) you have to enter Configuration setup F2 and add the desired info.