Checking System Resource Usage (top)
Function
The top command is used to check system resource usage.
Format
See the syntax of the top command of Linux.
Parameters
None
Usage Guidelines
None
Example
Check system resource usage.
iBMC:/->top top - 16:26:41 up 3 days, 15:48, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.08 Tasks: 46 total, 1 running, 45 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.2%us, 3.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 125572k total, 94920k used, 30652k free, 14780k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 35916k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1133 root 20 0 2408 968 784 R 3.7 0.8 0:00.09 top 1 root 20 0 1980 652 572 S 0.0 0.5 0:01.95 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 5 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.81 khelper 64 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 103 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 104 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:13.65 pdflush