Top command utime how to#

NOTE:В You can enable/disableВ the marked blueВ line by pressing ' m' Steal time - % CPU time in involuntary wait by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor (or) % CPU time stolen from a virtual machine Swap: 33554424k total, 3260k used, 33551164k free, 245826024k cached Explanation: This line gives us a brief detail of all the tasks running/sleeping/stopped currently in the system along with the CPU Usage NOTE:В You can enable/disableВ the marked blueВ line by pressing ' t' Swap: 33554424k total, 3260k used, 33551164k free, 245826024k cached Explanation: This line tells you about the uptime of your system along with load average value. NOTE:В You can enable or disable the marked blue line by pressing ' l' once top is running Well before taking you to that part let me explain you the various system related features which are shown by top command Generally I use top without any arguments, but the magic is mostly done from the top command line which must of us skip. The types of system summary information shown and the types, order and size of information displayed for tasks are all user configurable and that configuration can be made persistent across restarts. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. Let me show you some examples on the usage of top command

Top is one of my favourite tool for monitoring system usage and also to make any change for improving system

Top command utime how to#

How to reduce and/or add more columns or fields to top command in Linux (swap, memory, etc) Follow below link to get a step by step illustration to permanently add or remove extra columns to top command ouput with examples