What do the colors mean in htop?

For the CPU cores, I think that blue means nice, green normal CPU use and red I/O. But I'm not sure and I haven't found a definite answer.

Then there are the colors for memory. What do green, blue and yellow mean there?

Solution 1:

Press h inside htop for quick help.

CPU

Blue      : Low-priority threads
Green     : Normal priority threads
Red       : Kernel threads
Turquoise : Virtualization threads

Memory

Green         : Used memory
Blue          : Buffers
Yellow/Orange : Cache

Solution 2:

Also, in the list of processes, there are some that appear in Green. The black ones are main processes and the Green ones are threads. In my example below, I'm running a repair on a Cassandra node and as we can see most entries are threads.