Operating System Monitoring
The top command displays currently running processes and important information about the process, including their memory and CPU usage. The list is both
To exit top, press the q key.
Useful interactive commands that you can use with top include the following:
Table 3: Interactive Commands
Command Description
[Space] | Immediately refresh the display |
[h]Display a help screen
[k]Kill a process. You will be prompted for the process ID and the signal to send to it.
[n]Change the number of processes displayed. You will be prompted to enter the number.
[u]Sort by user
[M]Sort by memory usage
[P]Sort by CPU usage
Memory usage
The free command displays the total amount of physical memory and swap space for the system as well as the amount of memory that is used, free, shared, in kernel buffers, and cached.
| total | used | free | shared | buffers | cached |
Mem: | 256812 | 240668 | 16144 | 105176 | 50520 | 81848 |
108300 | 148512 |
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Swap: | 265032 | 780264252 |
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| total | used | free | shared | buffers | cached |
Mem: | 250 | 235 | 15 | 102 | 49 | 79 | |
buffers/cache: | 105 | 145 |
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Swap: | 258 | 0 | 258 |
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