Showing posts with label TOP Command. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TOP Command. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 9

Linux TOP Command

Top command options:
Line 1: Gives System present time, up time of the machine, number of users logged in, Load average on system at 1, 5, 15 min interval. Please ignore the values which mention load average as 5,10 and 15 mins.
Line 2: Gives total number of process on the machine, number of running process, number of sleeping process, number of stopped process, number of Zombie process.
Line 3: Gives you CPU details
Line 4 &  5: Gives RAM and SWAP details.
Line 6: To execute top command shortcuts(See below for the list of top command shortcuts ).
From Line 7: dynamically displayed top process results.
 top commands shortcuts: