Questions tagged [top]
Command-line application for monitoring running processes.
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hide unity bar kodi joined display
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 20.04, with a 42" LG TV joined display. Opening kodi from either location opens it in the laptop screen. "" minimizes it, then I can drag it to the LG &...
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Check how many processor cores my Python code is running on?
I want to check how many cores my Python script is using.
Suppose that I have this code:
while True:
print('Hello World!')
When I run top, it gives the CPU, Memory, percentage in addition to ...
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Calculate CPU usage from top command
I have to display the CPU usage on my application and update it in real time. I am using following command to get the CPU usage:
top -b -n 2 | grep Cpu | awk '{printf "CPU Load:%.2f\n", $(NF-13) + $(...
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How to investigate an unknown process called `frontend` pegging CPU all the time
As my laptop (Dell precision 16Gb, ubuntu 18.4) had been slower than usual, I had a look at top.
Here I have a process, called frontend pegging 50% of the CPU.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES ...
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Add cpu usage values in linux
I am using top command to get the CPU stats i.e.
top -bn1 | grep Cpu
> %Cpu(s): 14.8 us, 9.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 75.4 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st
I want to add "us" and "sy" values and ...
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Distance between icons
Anybody knows how to change distance between icons in top panel ubuntu 18.04? I need to do it smaller
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Ubuntu Studio running slow after some months
I am a Ubuntu Studio user and general Linux novice. I installed the latest Ubuntu Studio on my Dell Vostro 400 Q6600 quad-core, and it ran perfectly for many months. Now it's unusable. When I boot up,...
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Is it possible to show scripts that were run with sudo and have them show up as being run by the non-root user instead in Top/PS
I have the following defined in the sudoer file:
monitorUser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/bash /path/toScripts/*
On another VM I'm creating SSH sessions using the user monitorUser to run the scripts (...
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Cannot see process of service in top or ps
Status of my Postfix service is systemctl status postfix:
● postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
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Monitor number of running processor cores via terminal
I have a server where there are 144 procs and is being used by multiple people with the same account id. Is there any way I can see how many processors are free (in the terminal) so that I can ...
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How to permanently set refresh interval for top command?
I'm just looking at the tutorials for top command and came to know that the refresh interval can be overridden by hitting S on the keyboard while the top command is displaying information.
The ...
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what happens when pressing Enter when “top” command is run
when I run top, I see list of Linux processes. but when I press Enter, it will change and I don't understand what happens.
Also when I press other button f,g and h somethings happens.
please explain ...
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KSysGuard Reporting Memory Usage Incorrectly
A couple of times recently I've noticed my laptop running a bit slow and the disk light flickering a lot. It's an i7 with SSD and 12GB RAM, so I'm not really expecting much slowness when just ...
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Monitor process, because writing stuck sometimes for 1 second
System
Linux local 5.0.0-27-lowlatency #28-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 20 20:33:37 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Issue
Sometimes, when I am writing, cursor stuck for second and then it ...
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Possible to find average CPU usage over time in top?
Is it possible to use top to get the CPU usage of the process over time?
Running top with the d command allows me to change the delay, but does this change the rate at which it just refreshes (taking ...
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cutting 'used memory' from top command
Using the top -b -n1 command I can get the resources utilised by my system for that instance. However, I actually need specific values out of it. I need things like, overall CPU usage, overall memory ...
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Find out what is starting processes by command
My machine keeps starting processes with command "java" (listed under "command" column in top), that proceed to eat up all my resources for a few seconds, then disapear, a few seconds later a new one ...
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Help uninstalling 3rd party software
I recently installed Cisco Anyconnect in order to VPN into my university's intranet when off site. This software, however, has gone rouge and is crashing my computer regularly. Here is a top example:
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Crontab command not register the top command result into the output file
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I created a sh file.
cd /home/malus
echo "______________________________________________________________________" >> /home/malus/top.txt
date >> /home/malus/...
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multi-core CPU usage
I am using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and I am unexperimented in the capabilites of linux.
Recently, I've been wanting to get better insight in the CPU usage of processes, but I am getting ...
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vim using up 100% CPU, can't kill it
Every so often (about once a month), my vim starts eating resources like crazy, and I'm unable to kill it. Here's an example:
I ran:
kill 13799
To no effect. I would like to know:
1) Could be vim ...
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What is the “store” process?
Looking through top, I saw a process called "store" taking up one of my CPUs. What is this process? Perhaps it is referring to the app store? If so, I wonder why it is working in the background.
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How can I see the total memory used by, for example, google and firefox processes? [duplicate]
top and ps show multiple processes for these applications. Is there a simple command to show only one entry for each application showing the total?
I don't believe this is a duplicate of How can I ...
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CPU core stuck at 100% utilization
I noticed that my laptop's fans were running continuously at high RPM for a few hours. I installed HTOP to check CPU utilization, and found that one of the 8 cores is stuck at 100%. Even after ...
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How to increase the number of characters in top's COMMAND column?
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1
When I run top from gnome-terminal as a maximized window, I see that entries in the "COMMAND" column don't exceed fifteen characters. (I'm not asking about the command-line mode ...
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Task/Resource Manager Memory Usage Accuracy Ubuntu 18
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04LTS (8GB RAM) and I noticed how the Gnome task manager, the "top" and "htop" applications give me 3 considerably different memory usage figures. For instance, right now:
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Disable bold font in 'top' command
I want to have a custom 'watch' command that also includes the output of a single round of top -n 1, but the escape characters do not translate well. Is there a way to disable the bold font of the top ...
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Gnome Shell and high cpu usage
I am running ubuntu 18.04 on a old(ish) laptop, it's a hp dv7 6180sl with upgraded ram (16gb) and SSD. It's old but still fast enough for my job.
Since a few ubuntu versions (I always do a complete ...
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How to analyze video card RAM and GPU load? [duplicate]
I would like to analyze my video card performance (RAM, load, etc) the way that top, free and lscpu does for my main hardware.
Is there an app to do this?
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Why showing double vhost-2473 in KVM?
why system showing double vhost-2473? I have installed KVM and created a Guest machine with two interfaces on the Ubuntu-14.04 server. When I keep running the Guest machine, the Host machine showing ...
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How do I quit top without leaving the output on the terminal?
How do I get top to quit similarly to the way less quits, that is, not leaving behind its output on the screen?
This is the version I have:
procps-ng version 3.3.9
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GNOME system monitor and top showing different CPU usage
When I play a movie with SMPlayer (video:mpv) and I check my CPU usage with GNOME system monitor, it shows %4 or %5 CPU usage (1 second update interval), but htop shows %45 CPU usage:
top shows the ...
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Gnome Shell Memory Leak [closed]
I am running Ubuntu 17.10 with an Nvidia GTX 1070 and gnome-shell, also I have 16G of memory. Recently the process gnome-shell running after a few hours starts taking a lot of memory and the computer ...
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What's the difference between two PID processes?
What's the difference between the two processes here, they both have similar files and dir inside them?
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What processes are running on which CPU?
Running "top" shows you how much CPU power is used by each process.
Suppose you have several CPUs. Is there a utility that shows you the same information as top, but for each individual CPU?
For ...
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Ubuntu: Server is left with only 716 MB free RAM out of 62 GB RAM [duplicate]
My server has 62 GB RAM but now i can see only 716 MB RAM is free. Below is the output of free -lh command
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 62G ...
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How to display cpu usage respectively?
Here is my cpu part of info(omitted unnecessary).
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 60
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @ 2.80GHz
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Does running top and/or gnome-system monitor slow down your computer?
In a computer with multiple monitors, is there any harm in or reason not to keep a terminal with top or gnome-system-monitor open on a screen? I like knowing if some software I'm running is starting ...
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Simplify command in top
I'm using the following command to gather the information of child-PID:
top -b -n1 -p 719011,719012,719013,719014,719015,719016,719017 | sed -e 's/USER/----/' -e 's/root/----/' -e 's/PR/--/' -e 's/...
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Getting a tidy print from top
PID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
719011 ---- -- 0 ---- --- ---- - 0.7 1.3 606:58.25 ...
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Top -p results into file
I want to add my own header to the print out from this command and save to a file:
top -p 1198172,1198173,1198174.1198175,1198176,1198177,1198178 | awk '{print $1,"---",$9,"---",$10,"---",$12}'
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Root process suddenly uses gzip and takes up %75> CPU
I've been noticing late that my laptop will slow down suddenly, and the culprit is usually gzip being launched by a root process. This happens occassionally and I have no idea what's causing it. It ...
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how to save CPU logs or GPU usage values?
folks!
I want to check my CPU logs continuously. I used top and htop commands. But I just check them during simulations.
Now I want to run a real ROBOT for approx 2 hours (my laptop would be on ...
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Error: You must specify exactly one target process
what is the syntax to use cpulimit to throttle Web Content? Note the space between Web and Content.
top - 09:16:00 up 1:09, 2 users, load average: 1.80, 1.70, 1.77
Tasks: 215 total, 2 running, ...
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How to replace the top shell script? [closed]
Can the top command in /usr/bin be replaced? I read on superuser that it can hide processes if compromised. I want to delete top and get a fresh new script using apt-get from Ubuntu official ...
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How to get % cpu and % memory of process during OpenSSL encryption [duplicate]
I am running an OpenSSL script. How to get % cpu and % memory? Normally I am using top command in other terminal. top is returning % CPU and % memory but for noting down it is taking time. Is there ...
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Apache process in TOP command
This is a screenshot of TOP command on my server.
Which one of the processes are for Apache? Can't see any httpd
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Title bar problem with Ambiance theme in Ubuntu 16.04
I was messing around, installing themes which went well.
However, I might have tweaked something that I can't roll back which is the top menu panel font as shown in this picture:
I am keeping a ...
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How to set default nice value for a particular program?
Whenever I want to launch a program with a custom priority level, I have to type $nice -5 <Program> in the terminal.
I want to set the custom priority level to particular program as default ...
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My machine has running multiple application but in top utility it is showing only one process. Is it a bug in top utility?
While using top utility, I noticed that it is showing total tasks: 267, 1 running, 266 sleeping. But I am running multiple applications (MP3 player, Browser, Virtualbox) at the same time in my machine....
