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top — Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. See also: `htop`, `atop`, `glances`,

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Problem

How to use the top command: Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. See also: htop, atop, glances, btop, btm. More information: <https://manned.org/top>.

Solution

top — Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. See also: htop, atop, glances, btop, btm. More information: <https://manned.org/top>.

Start top:
top


Do not show any idle or zombie processes:
top {{[-i|--idle-toggle]}}


Show only processes owned by given user:
top {{[-u|--filter-only-euser]}} {{username}}


Sort processes by a field:
top {{[-o|--sort-override]}} {{field_name}}


Show the individual threads of a given process:
top {{[-Hp|--threads-show --pid]}} {{process_id}}


Show only the processes with the given PID(s), passed as a comma-separated list. (Normally you wouldn't know PIDs off hand. This example picks the PIDs from the process name):
top {{[-p|--pid]}} $(pgrep {{[-d|--delimiter]}} ',' {{process_name}})


Display help about interactive commands:
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Code Snippets

Start `top`

top

Do not show any idle or zombie processes

top {{[-i|--idle-toggle]}}

Show only processes owned by given user

top {{[-u|--filter-only-euser]}} {{username}}

Sort processes by a field

top {{[-o|--sort-override]}} {{field_name}}

Show the individual threads of a given process

top {{[-Hp|--threads-show --pid]}} {{process_id}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/top

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