Chapter 22. The Lowdown on Top
Top has lots of secrets to tell. So many, in fact, that I have to squeeze the font size of its output as small as I can make it in order for it to display legibly on the pages of this book. My apologies to all the sighting-impaired.
Let’s start with the basics. Just enter top at a command line and see what it has to say. Here’s the first 12 lines of output on my desktop box:
top - 22:28:20 up 1 day, 3:11, 2 users, load |
average: 0.21, 0.11, 0.09
Tasks: 103 total, 1 running, 102 sleeping, 0
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