Comments on: Linux TOP command

By: Ravi Sharma

Ravi Sharma — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:40:29 +0000

Really Nice Article..Thanks

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:38:12 +0000

Perfect article…Very clear & precise.

Thanks

Arun Kumar — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:32:47 +0000

Amazing Article,
Thanks alot.

Yasin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:00:44 +0000

Perfect article.
Thanks

ehsan — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:52:32 +0000

Really amazing! Thanks a lot

top: What does cpu usage mean? - Admins Goodies — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:37:55 +0000

niceguy — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:04:33 +0000

this is extremely useful. one can make use of top command in few minutes with this help.

hqian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:16:00 +0000

Great article. Thanks.

In the CPU line, what is %ni, %hi? Do these stand for network interrupt, and hardware interrupt respectively?

What is %st stands for?

Pat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:46:43 +0000

Great write up, thanks for putting this user friendly guide together!

Fabio Milano — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:26:34 +0000

Top will add load to the system. You can view tops load from within top. You can decide if top usage is skewing your results.

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2873 admin 20 0 14988 1268 856 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.18 top