System information

24 System Analysis and Tuning Guide
| `-hald-addon-stor
|-kded
|-kdeinit-+-kdesu---su---kdesu_stub---yast2---y2controlcenter
| |-kio_file
| |-klauncher
| |-konqueror
| |-konsole-+-bash---su---bash
| | `-bash
| `-kwin
|-kdesktop---kdesktop_lock---xmatrix
|-kdesud
|-kdm-+-X
| `-kdm---startkde---kwrapper
[...]
The parameter -p adds the process ID to a given name. To have the command lines
displayed as well, use the -a parameter:
2.3.4 Table of Processes: top
The command top, which stands for table of processes, displays a list of
processes that is refreshed every two seconds. To terminate the program, press Q. The
parameter -n 1 terminates the program after a single display of the process list. The
following is an example output of the command top -n 1:
tux@mercury:~> top -n 1
top - 17:06:28 up 2:10, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 85 total, 1 running, 83 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.5% us, 0.8% sy, 0.8% ni, 91.9% id, 1.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 515584k total, 506468k used, 9116k free, 66324k buffers
Swap: 658656k total, 0k used, 658656k free, 353328k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 700 272 236 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.33 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.27 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kblockd/0
12 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
472 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
473 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 pdflush
475 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
474 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kswapd0
681 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod
839 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 reiserfs/0
923 root 13 -4 1712 552 344 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.67 udevd
1343 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
1587 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event