top is a Unix/Linux/BSD program to show what processing are running. It can show the top users of CPU or memory.
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Which one is the cache value in the output of top?
On the book I'm reading, DevOps Troubleshooting, it says that the last value in the swap line is the memory used for file caches (yellow) in Linux so subtracting it to the used memory (green) gives you the actual used RAM:
but when I run it on my…
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Centos 7 - High Load, low CPU, low IO wait, no processed maked as D
I've got a CentOS 7 VM which seems to be stuck with quite high load (8-10). CPU usage is around 25%, there is no IO wait and there are no processes marked as D in top. I've been looking around as much as I can but these seem to be the only three…
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My server has a high usage of buff/cache RAM?
Recently I saw that my server Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has a high usage of buff/cache memory.
free -mh
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.8G 1.5G 4.4G 109M 1.9G …
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Number of virtual cores + how to know the right value
from lscpu we get the following
lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 48
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-47
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: …
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FreeBSD top disk io read write units
In FreeBSD you can run "top -m io" and it will show you disk io.
For example:
What units is the WRITE/READ in, bytes or kilobytes or megabytes?
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How can I adjust the name of a process I run?
I have a rack/ruby application on a server. I run it as follows:
nohup rackup -o 0.0.0.0 -p 1234 &
In the output of "top" command it appears as simply "ruby"
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
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atop not working properly
I've (yum) installed atop utility in centOS 6.8. But when I run any atop command (eg: atop -a) , it is giving the following error in commandline.
Malloc failed for current sysstats
However, I'm able to open the raw log file using the command "atop…
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Why wordpress sites top -c showing that only index file is used
I am want to that Why wordpress sites top -c showing that only index file is used.
What all request are handle by index.php?
when every time i check top -c it's show as below:
743204 (Trace) (Kill) affinity 0 4.34 0.14 /usr/bin/php…
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Memory on dedicated server is filled out
We are managing a dedicated server (WHM/cPanel) with 4-5(Magento & Woocommerce mostly) accounts in it, along with custom code that will connect those platforms with ERPs. This custom code works a lot with MySQL.
The server has 10GB of RAM and for…
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server not responding
The server is not responding and the top output shows the following:
mysql is consuming more than 500% of CPU
Will the server restart solve ths issue? Will I face the same problem after restart?
# top
top - 06:30:38 up 82 days, 17:43, 1 user, load…
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What do negative numbers under TIME+ in htop mean?
What do the red negative numbers I'm seeing displayed in htop mean?
Should I be worried?
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What is the Path API for kubectl top pods
I use this command "kubectl top pods" using Kubectl command
I need path api for this command
I need return data from this command "kubectl top pods" via api
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How to understand output of top command
How to understand output for top as Load Average is continuously increasing but can't understand which process is eating cpu because %cpu utilization for process is maximum 0.7 but load average is showing high values ! So how to know where is…
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Which request is httpd2-prefork running?
Hi my server is running low on memory from time to time
I assume apache is the problem. Is there a way how i can tell which http-url a httpd2-prefork from top is running?
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How can I get combined CPU usage for all CPUs in one line on Linux?
I want to output the following:
Average CPU utilization across all cores, over the last n seconds, in a single percentage value.
So if I have 4 CPUs and their combined user and system utilization over the last 10 seconds is:
# not actual output
CPU1…
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