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Command-line application for monitoring running processes.

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 processes or threads currently being managed by the Linux kernel.

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Why are some processes highlighted in top?

Why are some processes highlighted in top? Does highlight have special meaning? Thanks!
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How to force 'top' to show human readable values for %MEM RES and VIRT

How can I configure 'top' to show all values in human readable format instead of long numerics. I am using Ubuntu 14.04. Sample output I am getting at the moment: top - 11:39:56 up 14:46, 11 users, load average: 1.14, 1.61, 1.35 Tasks: 248 total, …
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Launch top with filters?

Is there a way to run top with these filters by default: filters: '%CPU>0.0' + '!COMMAND=top' ? Can I pass that via command line options?
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System information disabled due to load higher than 4.0 but it ain't higher than 4.0

On one of my Raspberry PI's I got the following warning after login: System information disabled due to load higher than 4.0 But top doesn't reflect that (see screenshot), am I missing something?
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top CPU does not sum for all CPUs

From my box: root@arrakis:/tmp# top top - 09:53:14 up 28 days, 15:10, 15 users, load average: 0,59, 0,64, 0,67 Tasks: 391 total, 2 running, 386 sleeping, 1 stopped, 2 zombie %Cpu0 : 4,5 us, 2,4 sy, 0,0 ni, 93,2 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, …
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Top Command not showing stats

I am new to the OS and when I run the TOP command it's not showing me the stats on the TOP. I ended up installing HTOP but still want to know whats going on with TOP command. Thanks
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command 'top' what do "3 users' mean?

I used the command 'top' to show running processes, and I noticed the first and second line look like this: top - 00:30:31 up 5:41, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.16, 0.27 top - 00:31:25 up 5:42, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.20, 0.28 When…
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How to replace the top shell script?

Can the top command in /usr/bin be replaced? I read on superuser that it can hide processes if compromised. I want to delete top and get a fresh new script using apt-get from Ubuntu official repositories.
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Why Statistics of top and htop are different

Whenever i use top and htop commands to see memory stats, it always different as shown in figures. Which I should trust.
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Why is top showing such massive cpu usage numbers?

I just installed 23.10 a few days ago and this started this morning. I tried to run git status and it seemed to hang. Then VSCode had to unexpectedly close. Then Chrome said it's taking a while so wants to Force Quit or Wait. So I restarted and…
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How can I remove (uninstall) top (table of processes)

Is there a way to remove (uninstall) top (table of processes)?
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how to run the top command with 'm' already pushed?

I want to run top so that it opens as if you hit the m key, what I really want is this: How to run ''top'' command 1 time and exit? But I want to a) have the 'm' key hit b) sort by memory (shift-m) Can this be done from the command…
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What's the difference between two PID processes?

What's the difference between the two processes here, they both have similar files and dir inside them?
Anshul Choudhary
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