What does the top command display?

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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / krishna prasad m

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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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / suhas kokal

top command displays the current ammount of mamory occupied
by the currently executing processes and the details.

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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / senthil

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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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / sumesh

inaddition to memory usage top command displays cpu usage
and process details

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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / d.veera

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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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / renga

Top command used to display for following details

*CPU utilization
*process statistics
*memory utilization

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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / deoraj kuljyoti

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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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / nasrin

top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real
time. It displays a listing of the most CPU-intensive tasks
on the system, and can provide an interactive interface for
manipulating processes. It can sort the tasks by CPU usage,
memory usage and runtime.
top displays a variety of information about the processor
state. The display is updated every 5 seconds by default,
which you can change.
it displays
uptime, processes,CPU states, mem. swap and it displays
various information about a process like pid, user, cpu
usage, mem usage, command name etc.

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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / venkat.palavarapu

top - display Linux tasks

The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. The types of system summary information shown and the types, order and size of information displayed for tasks are all user configurable and that configuration can be made persistent across restarts.
‘top’ gives the following information
1. Process ID
2. USER
3. Task Priority
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. CPU time (in Hundredths) and
10. Share of physical memory usage
11. Duration of the Task
12. Task/command name

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What does the top command display? ..

Answer / fakhrulla shariff

TOP command display the version & copy right of oprating
system..............

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