cyberciti.biz — Whenever a Linux system CPU is occupied by a process, it is unavailable for processing other requests. Rest of pending requests must wait till CPU is free. This becomes a bottleneck in the system. Following command will help you to identify CPU utilization, so that you can troubleshoot CPU related performance problems.
Jan 14, 2007 View in Crawl 4
drizekJan 15, 2007
top sucksapt-get install htopinstead.
drizekJan 15, 2007
htop is a lot easier to read though.
golloJan 15, 2007
htop FTW
pauldonnellyJan 15, 2007
Perhaps that it's not on every system, and the author doesn't consider it better than the non-standard one that is mentioned.
echimuJan 15, 2007
Commands are Linux specific; these commands are not available under Windows. May be available under OS X.
transeunteJan 15, 2007
When in Rome...
rmerrickJan 15, 2007
@Negativefx --What a load of bulls**t. I run linux on an old 1.3 Mhz AMD. When I run Top, I can see that the desktop does not use hardly any CPU usage once it is up and running. Even Top uses more CPU resources than the desktop. Check it out for yourself. Here is the command: Top -U dumbassuser. Try it, Loser.
madeingermanyJan 17, 2007
In Linux you can map Ctrl+Alt+Del to whatever you like - even something really useful.... but even to a system monitor :p