top

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 07:35.
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top command produces a constantly-updated list of all resident processes, listed in order of CPU usage. It shows how much processing power and memory are being used, as well as other information about the running processes.
top - 10:13:56 up 42 min, 1 user, load average: 0.62, 0.33, 0.22
Tasks: 127 total, 1 running, 126 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.1%us, 1.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.1%id, 2.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2055528k total, 818688k used, 1236840k free, 56384k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 0k used, 2031608k free, 456552k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3611 cab 18 0 12572 964 700 R 3.9 0.0 0:00.02 top
1 root 15 0 10308 684 568 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.35 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/0
6 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
7 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
52 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
53 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 kacpid
151 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue/0
152 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
155 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
157 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kseriod
186 root 24 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
187 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 pdflush
188 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0