Questions tagged [top]
A command-line system monitor tool that produces a frequently-updated list of processes.
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Remove special characters while redirecting top command
Command used to redirect (as root):
top -b n1 > 1.txt
When I open 1.txt using vi I see:
^[[H^[[2J^[(B^[[mtop - 10:04:56 up 4 days, 5:58, 37 users, load average: 1.80, 1.96, 1.80^[(B^[[m^[[39;49m^...
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Differences between swap part in top command vs swap -l command
I have a system running with 256Gb RAM. My swap space is getting exhausted due to some process. So as a diagnostics, we put a crontab to monitor the usage and space. This is where I am confused.
The ...
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How to get number of threads/tasks per core in Linux?
As you may know, in Linux, each CPU core has its own run queue. How can I get the number of threads currently running on each core in Linux (Ubuntu)?
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Opening top with interactive interface option
On a SUSE Linux Enteprise 12 system, I'm trying to out the top command + the interactive interface option 1 but can't seem to figure out how to 'send' the 1 option.
The 1 option gives you an overview ...
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How to log CPU usage but only when it is high or touching certain treshold ? (+ formatting)
How can we log CPU usage but only when there is a process(s) with utilization above certain threshold (for example 30% or more) ?
What i am trying to achieve (with shell script) are more or less like ...
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Need to get average waiting time for a month
I'm not much familiar with Linux. So, it might be an easy question for everyone else. When we run top c command - we get average waiting time(wa) on server for current state. I need to know how ...
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Does Pulseaudio leak memory?
I invoked the top command and got this:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3433 klutt 20 0 4790760 1.0g 282208 S 8.3 4.2 1261:...
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fatal: division by zero attempted
The below command is successful if run in a shell script.
top -n 1 | awk 'FNR ==4 {print $5/$3*100}'
67.7902
It does not work, however, if run from a cron job. Hence I changed the command but now ...
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kswapd0 in ubuntu slows down the system
We don't have any service running in the ubuntu but currently, we see the system becomes very slow from the morning,
When I tried top command, I see there are two new services running like below,
top ...
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CPU load and CPU usage impact on processes
I have looked into a fair bit of online forums and blogs to understand the impact of CPU load and CPU usage on processes. By
CPU Load I mean the Load average which appears in top command. 1min, 5min, ...
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is there a Linux command like top to view CPU utilization in the Past?
If I use the top -i in Red Hat 7.4, I can view CPU utilization and the PID of the respective process in real time. Is there a way to view a capture of CPU utilization and PID for a date/time in the ...
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Linux “top” command: What are “be” and “un” (for CPU usage)?
This question complements Linux "top" command: What are us, sy, ni, id, wa, hi, si and st (for CPU usage)?.
In Ubuntu Xenial the top gives e.g.:
%CPU(s): 0,6 be, 0,1 sy, 1,5 ni, 97,6 ...
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Which output column of the top utility corresponds to the “physical memory” consumption stated by the Windows 10 task manager?
In top, I've got the VIRT and RES columns denoting RAM consumption:
top - 21:43:27 up 38 min, 2 users, load average: 0,97, 0,72, 0,48
Tasks: 120 total, 1 running, 65 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 ...
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What is the “debian-+” user?
While watching top some process flashed before my eyes with strange USER-column debian-+.
I checked that this particular process belongs to /usr/bin/tor.
But I can't see the user debian-+ in Linux ...
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How to run top for one iteration, -n flag not working
I am running top and only want a snapshot of the CPU usage values at the current moment so I tried using top -n 1 | grep "%CPU(s). However, top outputs the same exact values every single time I run it....
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linux top Single/Separate-Cpu-States
is it possible to execute linux top from console with Single Cpu States (without clicking "1" after top executes), even if someone set/saved /root/.toprc to run top with Separate-Cpu-States ?
I was ...
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Getting this weird error in zsh shell 'top: failed tty set: Interrupted system call'
nano works fine if I try to run in the background
[~]$ nano &
[1] 739
[~]$
[1] + 739 suspended (tty output) nano
[~]$ fg
[1] + 739 continued nano
But if I try to run top in this way then it ...
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Linux swap space usage not freed
i received alerts on one of my systems (RHEL6) saying that it had a high swap space usage.
after looking at the VM, i can indeed see that the swap is fully utilized, while we have more than enough ...
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Why is memory (rss) from ps command different than memory seen in top command?
When checking the memory usage of a process I see that ps command shows a RSS value which is different than memory shown in top:
$> ps e -o command,vsize,rss,%mem|grep "myapplication"|head -n 1
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Command result at the top of terminal
Is there a way to display the command result at the top of the terminal and the prompt below it? So that I could see the result, e.g.
while true;
do
sensors | grep temp1;
sleep 2;
done
and ...
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Display PPID and output to file using top
I am trying to monitor the CPU, RAM and computing time of a process, and all the children processes that it generates, using the Linux top command.
I found that I could store the output of the top ...
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what does htop stand for in Linux?
Can someone please explain to me what htop mean? or refer me to a resource that explains it NOT tell me how to use it?
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Enhance the CPU utilization in Linux
I'm using the below excellent command from this thread, and I want to enhance it a bit using your help.
I will have a jenkins pipeline, which will run the below command every X minute:
CPU_USAGE=$(...
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Why are `top` CPU numbers different from those of System Monitor and Conky Process Panel?
When my laptop gets slow for a moment during somewhat heavier processing I expect to see higher numbers (for CPU use) than what I in fact see in the conky Process Panel that I have on the desktop and ...
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How can I view the full command in top?
I've been using top with -c to view the command that started the process. Some commands with long argument lists get cut off though. Is there a way to see these on full? On screen or written to a file ...
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Load balancing tactic on Fedora
(1) Currently I am running Fedora Release 29. About 5 years back, I used to run CentOS 5. The machine has 32 cores.
(2) When I used to run some data crunching scripts on CentOS 5, each script used to ...
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`top` – Any Shortcut for Showing Only Current User’s Processes?
When I run top, after having looked at all currently running processes, I often want to filter down to only my own processes. So I hit u, type my user name and hit Enter.
However, in our company, ...
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top: failed tty get
I am running following script to monitor some processes and store the output in html file. But on running, it gives the error top: failed tty get.
Here is the script:
var=4
while [ $var -ge 0 ]
do
`...
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Getting error when using FILTERING in a Window on top command
Trying to filter results of top command by Filtering in a Window, pressing o then typing filter, like described in a tutorial here: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/top.1.html
but when I typing ...
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Is there a way to collapse the list of processors in htop?
Now that I have a computer with 64 processors, I have a real display problem with htop.
When I look at the screen in my console, all I see are the 64 processors and nothing about what's running (well,...
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Clear up some memory by removing processes shown by Top
I have an old user (bob) in my system. As per output of 'top' it seems that many processes are run by this user (command for most of them is'java'). As I have root access I deleted the user however ...
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Linux Mint - Frontend process, what is it?
when I run top command in my console after fresh start, I have a frontend process that uses a lot of CPU.
Does anyone know what it is?
Or how to check where it comes from?
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plist-sz value not matching with actual process running
My plist-sz (sar -q) value is around 28000 but when I check ps -ef |wc -l it shows only around 300. What could cause high value of plist-sz?
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Get data about system load in an easy-to-process format
Often I feel the need to run some computation on the data about my system load. For instance about the data that top shows. And possibly iotop and htop as well.
Some of the things I'd like to do are ...
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TOP Data inconsistent Centos
One Process Is showing that is it consuming 2000 percent cpu but in the Overall percentage in TOP command , it is showing only 2-3 percent .
Some other info : 1. There are total 32 cores in the ...
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Formatting data as table with AWK print
I'm trying to write a code to print the top 10 processes running on macOS.
But when I run this code top -l 1 -u -o cpu -n10 | awk 'NR==12, NR==22 {print $2,$3,$8}'; the output is not organized in a ...
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What does the output in `top -b -n 1 -p <PID>` mean? [duplicate]
When running top -b -n 1 -p <PID>in Debian 8, what do the outputted elements mean?
Example output:
$ top -b -n 1 -p 781
top - 14:44:21 up 18:19, 1 user, load average: 0.66, 0.56, 0.52
Tasks: ...
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How do I display the thread / child process count of a process in top?
I know there is a one-line-per-thread view (-H), but the particular threads are not grouped by master process. In fact, I would be completely satisfied with the sole thread count per process (= how ...
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Inconsistent CPU Usage in Top
I'm experiencing very strange behaviour with some hardware we're working on.
My setup consists of Linux 4.9.87 w/ SMP & PREEMPT RT on a dual-core iMX6 CPU.
The application running on this setup ...
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How does htop calculate times? (Impossible times shown)
I was running what was supposed to be a small make job on a small node in our cluster, but a sorting process seemed to be overwhelming the allocated RAM, so I killed it after 20 hours (same jobs on ...
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Excluding users from the top command
I'm trying to use the top command and exclude two users from showing in the iteration I'm sending to the textfile.
I have used the -u='!user' command-line option, but I can only exclude 1 user with ...
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Linux processes - Too large for RAM usage. What is it? [duplicate]
This is what I see in my Linux Debian Server:
The values "Size" (1. image) or "VIRT" (2. image) are too big for "RAM usage". What are they?
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top “Command Name” column
On Ubuntu 18.04, I have a C++ compiled program MyServer. top -c shows the "command line" correctly as ./MyServer, but the "command name" with top is shown as "main".
I wanted to know how to get ...
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CPU load average + how to get cpu load average for history of X hours
We all know we can get average CPU load as:
uptime
10:09:22 up 2 days, 1:44, 1 user, load average: 20.01, 20.03, 22.05
but this shows only
load average over the last 1 minute is 22.05
load ...
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List top 5 processes for a specific user
I am trying to get the top five processes of a specific user in a bash:
ps -Ao user,uid,comm,pid,pcpu,tty --sort=-pcpu | head -n 6 | grep <username>
However, this selects the top 5 processes ...
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htop reports high CPU% for process with low CPU% in visualization
I am trying to get a practical understanding of load in a server application. The application reads a large volume of data on a TCP connection. When I examined CPU utilization with htop, the process ...
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Why is this Linux process running so slow?
I've got a Python process on my Ubuntu 19.04 system that doesn't seem to be memory starved, yet is running a lot slower than I expect. The system has 96 GB of RAM plus 96 GB of swap. This process is ...
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In the Top program, what does it mean for a process to be in state I?
I'm using Top from the procps-ng package, version 3.3.12. The man page leaves out what the I state stands for
28. S -- Process Status
The status of the task which can be one of:
D = ...
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How to get server name inline with top output?
I've been given the task to use top(htop is not an option on our system) to monitor CPU usage over time. If a user is on a server and using over 100% for longer than an hour, an email alert will be ...
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Why one application is shown several times in htop? [duplicate]
I run a simple Python script in a docker container (single process, no multiprocessing or multithreading).
When looking at it with ps (one instance):
root@srv ~# ps -ef | grep homemonitor
root ...
