Top results Explained

Top results Explained

The top command features Windows-like Task Manager, but not as intuitive as the task Manager, and provides a brief description of the contents below.

Information Line	top--command/up-Update time/users-number of users/load average--1 minutes, 5 minutes, average active processes per CPU in 15 minutes
Process Line	total--total number of processes/running--running process/sleeping--sleep process/stopped--stopped process/zombie--zombie process
CPU Line	us--User Utilization/sy--system usage/ni/id--idle rate/
Memory lines	total--Total memory/used--used memory/free--remaining memory/buffers--cache
Swap partition	total--Total swap partition/used--used swap partition/free--remaining swap partition/cached--cache
Specific processes	pid--process id/user--Process Start User/pr--priority/ni--friendly value/virt--virtual memory usage/res--physical memory make amount/shr--shared memory usage/ s--process Status/%cpu--cpu occupancy/%mem--memory usage/time+--CPU usage since startup/command--start command

Top results Explained