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I'm investigating a difference in behavior of using "top -H -p < pid >" and "mpstat -P ALL 2". My company's app is a multi-threaded process in which we bind each thread to ...

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Host machine: SunOS 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc sun4v As an Informix DBA monitoring a system I am trying to see the top users of CPU. In an Informix environment, that slot is hogged by a gazillion ...

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I have a computation intensive process that I need to run multiple times on a multi-core processor but "top" isn't showing utilization or load in a useful way. For example, imagine my task ...

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I've created a screen session and ran rsync within that session: screen -S rsync_backup rsync -rvnc data/ data2 >rsync_out-4.txt 2>rsync_outErr-4.txt I used the top command for progress ...

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When I use the top command in linux terminal: top -c the output like this: top - 21:54:17 up 197 days, 6:34, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.65, 1.47 Tasks: 255 total, 1 running, 200 sleeping, 0 ...

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Does the "avail Mem" value actually relate to physical memory rather than swap, despite being displayed on the swap line? I noticed there's a period at the end of the "swap used" ...

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By default, htop shows many more processes than other tools (top, ps). The solution is to press H, as mentionned in Why are there many processes listed under the same title in htop?, to get the "...

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I want to watching the processes RSS in alpine container, so I using top -m switch show memory mode. But it shown processes that is current user, not all users processes. Is this behavior by design or ...

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I'm trying to switch from using htop to top because a few too many times I have been in servers that don't have the former. When I first type top and enter, the memory usage in shown in MiB: Then I ...

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From the man page of top, I found RSan is part of RES (resident memory) as follows. Private | Shared 1 | 2 ...

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I want to run a process that spawns children, e.g., for i in {1..4}; do sh -c 'echo $$; for j in {1..3}; do sh -c "echo ...\$\$; sleep 1" done' done and I would like to monitor the ...

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I am using a piece of software that includes a scripting language that has builtins that allow me to call system functions, for example I may write the script: system("whoami") and the ...

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I'm working on a SGE linux cluster and beginners often run memory/resource consuming tools on the login node instead of using qsub or qlogin ( https://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/htmlman/htmlman1/...

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I have a cloud instance that's showing a weird load pattern when checked with top: top - 21:39:28 up 456 days, 8:39, 2 users, load average: 1.44, 1.19, 1.10 Tasks: 100 total, 1 running, 99 ...

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I have a 4 socket server having 24 core cpu's. 96 cores total. How can I, in RHEL 7/8 Linux, get the value that is %CPU as shown by top for every core in the system? I plan on writing C code that ...

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