December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
You've probably used top so many times now that you're sick of reading about it, and you probably know a great deal about how useful it can be, despite its simple invocation.
$ top
Pretty much universal across UNIX systems, top gives you a near-real-time representation of process usage across your system:

When it comes to troubleshooting, top is generally indispensable. Not only useful for seeing process, memory, and CPU information at a glance, top will work with an extremely small footprint, meaning that it's likely to work on systems that are seemingly exponentially contended.
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