Questions tagged [top]
Top is a UNIX program that shows system usage in real time.
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Processes memory don't add up in top
I'm having hard time understanding memory usage reported by top. The memory summary section lists the following. All numbers in MiB.
MiB Mem : 31884.1 total, 13562.7 free, 7881.9 used, 10439.4 ...
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Differences between STOPPED in top command and STOPPED in ps
I have a running script in a docker container. After a while, I found that the processes seemed to be in stuck when I used ps -ef command, since the TIME field for those processes were stuck in a ...
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RHEL7 - High CPU load when write to NAS
I do not understand, what is the reason for very high "load average" reported by top.
This is RHEL 7. The problem is repeatable. We have one remote NAS and when one user-space process start ...
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htop show different cpu usage with top
I'm running fedora in virtualbox with 2 cores. a.out is just a simple single-threaded program. I don't know why htop gives 200% CPU.
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is it possible to capture output of top -c -n1 -b into a text file - but preserve the full output ( i.e not truncated at right side) via shell
I used top -c -n1 -b | tail -18 > topout.txt successfully.
the topout.txt shows me full output of process names/command used.
But - once I copy this line of code in a .sh file and run via crontab ...
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Processes on a CPU
How do I monitor/list the processes currently running on a specific CPU core. Basically I'm looking for an output similar to 'top' or 'htop' command but filtered for a specific CPU core id. Or the ...
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How to see *all* most CPU-consuming processes in Linux?
The "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" applet shows my CPU is running at its maximum most of the time :
However, the results of the top command always show that the top processes are around 2%,...
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Remote monitoring on MobaXterm
There is a remote monitoring bar at the bottom of the MobaXterm. That's very cool and it is near real-time.
I wish I could full-screen the CPU utilization chart, but it is not possible. A similar ...
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How can I group processes by application in htop?
In htop, how can I group processes by application? I've tried pressing H, but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Here is a good example of the problem I'm trying to solve:
In the above, I want to see ...
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Why is used memory reported by free much less than resident usage for a single process as reported by top?
I have a potentially problematic application that may have memory leak issues. However, in the process of investigating this, I've come across what seems to be conflicting information.
When I use free ...
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How to sort output of top command based on nice value?
We can use Shift+p to sort on basic of cpu usage, Shift+r to sort on basis of pid & Shift+m on basis of memory utilisation.
How to sort output of top command based on nice value?
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WA% in top command
Can someone explain what does the WA% command mean? I've gone thru several SO questions but my doubt still remains
WA is the amount of CPU time that was waiting on IO
How does CPU ever wait on an IO? ...
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Show total cpu for a set of processes in linux
I want to monitor the total cpu usage of all the process corresponding to some filter. For example all the process witch corresponds to some executable.
On top or htop I can filter the process list, ...
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How to pause the output in top [duplicate]
I distinctly remember there being a key one can press while running top that pauses the output, and then you can press the same key again to resume updates. However I can't seem to remember the key. ...
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How do I get 300% CPU usage? Is top command flawed? [duplicate]
Here's a picture of the top command on my VPS.
As you can see sqlserver + dotnet are taking near 300% CPU usage. How is that even possible?
Can I trust top results from now on? Is this app flawed and ...
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