May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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The top command
By default, the top command displays a list of the top CPU-consuming processes as well as basic system statistics, including the number of tasks in the process list, CPU cores, and memory usage. The output is updated every few seconds.
This command displays several parameters along with the top CPU-consuming processes:
$ top
top - 18:37:50 up 16 days, 4:41,7 users,load average 0.08 0.05 .11
Tasks: 395 total, 2 running, 393 sleeping, 0 stopped 0 zombie