On 16 July 2010 09:56, Tha.Suresh <jemenisuresh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > This is old trick. I will add one more. You can kill a process inside top by typing k then entering process id. For more read man top. with regards, aashwin