{"id":346,"date":"2011-08-01T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.ivystreetinc.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2011-08-01T22:34:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:34:46","slug":"linux-tip-cpu-utilization-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Linux Tip: CPU Utilization &#8211; top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use the top command when I want to see CPU usage and some other CPU stuff.<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nuser@ubuntu:\/etc$ top<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of a text version of the processes view in Windows task manager:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\ntop - 21:56:18 up 1 day,  1:02,  2 users,  load average: 1.12, 0.34, 0.25<br \/>\nTasks: 134 total,   1 running, 133 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie<br \/>\nCpu(s):  1.7%us,  4.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st<br \/>\nMem:    379840k total,   368436k used,    11404k free,    50188k buffers<br \/>\nSwap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   191652k cached<br \/>\nPID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND<br \/>\n830 root      20   0 89360  15m 6600 S  3.0  4.3   0:43.89 Xorg<br \/>\n8646 user      20   0 46132  12m 9792 S  1.3  3.3   0:04.53 gnome-terminal<br \/>\n1246 root      20   0  5676 2848 2304 S  0.3  0.7   2:29.56 vmtoolsd<br \/>\n8837 user      20   0  2544 1216  928 R  0.3  0.3   0:00.19 top<br \/>\n1 root      20   0  2796 1640 1172 S  0.0  0.4   0:01.33 init<br \/>\n2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd<br \/>\n3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration\/0<br \/>\n4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd\/0<br \/>\n5 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog\/0<br \/>\n6 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.10 events\/0<br \/>\n7 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset<br \/>\n8 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper<br \/>\n9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 netns<br \/>\n10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 async\/mgr<br \/>\n11 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pm<br \/>\n12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 sync_supers<br \/>\n13 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 bdi-default<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>It updates itself too.  Oh yeah &#8212; ctrl-C your way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use the top command when I want to see CPU usage and some other CPU stuff. user@ubuntu:\/etc$ top Reminds me of a text version of the processes view in Windows task manager: top &#8211; 21:56:18 up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 1.12, 0.34, 0.25 Tasks: 134 total, 1 running, 133 sleeping, 0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}