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Question 
What does the top command display?
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  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 1		 
top command displays the current ammount of mamory occupied 
by the currently executing processes and the details.
 
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Suhas Kokal
 
  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 2		 
inaddition to memory usage top command displays cpu usage 
and process details
 
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Sumesh
 
 
 
  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 3		 
Top command Displays:
1.System Time
2.Uptime
3.Cpu Usage
4.Phsical Memory
5.Swap Memory Usage
6.No: of Processes
 
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Senthil
 
  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 4		 
top displays the top processes on the system and 
periodically updates the information.  Raw CPU percentage 
is used to rank the processes.
 
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Deoraj Kuljyoti
 
  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 5		 
It wil display:
1. process id
2. username
3. priority of task
4. Nice value of a task
5. Amount of virtual memory used by task
6. Resident size (non swapped physical memory used by task)
7. Amount of shared memory used by task
8. process status(whether sleep or running)
9. Share of physical memory usage
10. CPU time (in Hundredths) and
11. command or program used or using.
these are all the things the TOP command will display
 
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Krishna Prasad M
 
  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 6		 
Top command is used, we can see live status of process. ( 
example like in windows task manager)
We can see follwing details on live.
1. process id
2. username
3. priority of task
4. Nice value of a task
5. Amount of virtual memory used by task
6. Resident size (non swapped physical memory used by task)
7. Amount of shared memory used by task
8. process status(whether sleep or running)
9. Share of physical memory usage
10. CPU time (in Hundredths) and
11. command or program used or using.
 
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D.veera
 
  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 7		 
Top command used to display for following details

*CPU utilization
*process statistics
*memory utilization
 
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Renga
 
  Re: What does the top command display?
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# 8		 
TOP command display the version & copy right of oprating 
system..............
 
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Fakhrulla Shariff
 

 
 
 
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