A command-line system monitor tool that produces a frequently-updated list of processes.
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Total amount of memory usage by a single process say httpd
I want to get a full added amount of memory usage for a particular process. Here say I want to have the total amount of memory taken by httpd. So if I do a tail command as "tail -M"
I get
PID ...
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Why the value of VSIZE in top is different from the value of VSZ (Virtual set size) in ps?
I know VSZ in ps is for the total address space allocated for the app and is sometimes aliased as vsize (mentioned in man page of ps on linux), but what's the definition of VSIZE in top? This top ...
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iotop but for particular disk?
Is there a tool like iotop but for monitoring IO on specific volumes? (Or perhaps I missed a way to filter iotop?) If not is there any way to get at this information via (say)/proc? (dstat etc. ...
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Which processes swaps memory
I can see swap's total, used, free etc. sizes from top command.
But I can't figure out which process uses swap, is it possible to find out swap memory by process?
I'm running CentOS 6.3.
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Determine how much a process is using each disk?
How do I tell how much load a particular process is contributing to each of several available volumes/mounts? Seems that dstat only shows aggregate stats across all processes per disk, and iotop only ...
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Display 'PRI' and 'NI' via 'top -stats'
I'm trying to create a script that prints top stat for some specific fields (e.g. pid, command, priority, nice value). I can print most of them by using -stats option, but there is no arg for ni and ...
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Prevent Java to escalate CPU usage on Slackware64?
I use Slackware64-current on my work laptop and though I love running Slackware, sometimes it hangs on me near to the point of starting considering falling back to Windows.
I develop on Java and use ...
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Why the kernel works so hard?
Tasks: 808 total, 242 running, 553 sleeping, 3 stopped, 10 zombie
Cpu(s): 20.0%us, 79.5%sy, 0.3%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16313868k total, 6922552k used, 9391316k ...
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Very large values for utime and stime for foo. Is foo still running?
I am running a program foo
It has been running for close to 30 days now (even more)
Until around 10 days ago (I cannot be very exact) it used 100% of one cpu on my dual core laptop (it was at the ...
