

For command line users, typing in the password at the prompt is second nature and I think for most of us it's forgetting to launch htop as sudo that is the problem rather than being required to type in the password. The correct answer was presented by it is unfortunately required to alias htop to sudo htop. Here's a screenshot of the "blessed" htop instance, invoked as htop:Īnd here's a picture of it running as sudo htop:Īs you can see, the non-sudo-invoked htop displays significantly less information. When you’re monitoring CPU usage from the Dock, the green portion of the bar indicates the amount of processor time used by application software, and the red portion of the bar indicates the CPU time given to the Mac OS X operating system. Note that for the latest versions of htop to function correctly on OS X, it is not sufficient to "bless" htop with chmod 6555 htop and sudo chown htop - while htop will run, the output will differ between htop and sudo htop. Choose ViewDock Icon then choose what type of real-time graph you want to display in your Dock.
