[kanchilug] [Tip ]How to view the performance details of individual CPUs in the top command

  • From: "Tha.Suresh" <jemenisuresh@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: KanchiLug <kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:56:23 +0530

How to view the performance details of individual CPUs in the top command

You can view the performance details of each CPUs of your machine in
the top command by pressing 1 (number one) while the top command is
running.one).

$ top

top - 09:50:17 up 16 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.11, 0.09, 0.08
Tasks: 174 total,   1 running, 171 sleeping,   2 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.1%us,  2.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2045828k total,  1117436k used,   928392k free,   118552k buffers
Swap:  2000052k total,        0k used,  2000052k free,   418580k cached

when i pressed '1' i got the details shown below.

Tasks: 174 total,   1 running, 171 sleeping,   2 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  4.8%us,  4.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 91.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  1.7%us,  2.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 95.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2045828k total,  1120512k used,   925316k free,   118664k buffers
Swap:  2000052k total,        0k used,  2000052k free,   422536k cached

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htop - This is an excellent substitute for top. This program is easier
    to read, with better color coded output.

sudo apt-get install htop

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Tha.Suresh

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