{"id":370,"date":"2009-05-23T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=370"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:57:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:57:40","slug":"top-and-topaz-are-unix-linux-and-aix-utilities-that-provides-real-time-display-of-top-cpu-using-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"TOP and TOPAZ are Unix, Linux and AIX utilities that provides real time display of top cpu using processes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a server\/systems administrator you will find the TOP utility very useful to determine top cpu using processes.  TOP is the utility for Linux and most  Unix operating systems.  IBM Aix has it\u2019s own version which does the same job, it is called Topaz. <\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><div style=\"margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px\";><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3319935785736004\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"250x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"cccccc\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"cc0000\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ffffff\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><\/div><p>Top can be download from unixtop.org, the documentation are also avaiable from this site.  With Top you can also find out which account is responsible for utilizing the most cpu resources, and for how long the process has been running.  It provides a real time snapshot of the running processes.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Windows has the graphical version which is called Task Manager.  To access task manager right click on the task bar, and select task manager.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a snapshot of the Top display.<\/p>\n<p>Mem:   2074120k total,  1290556k used,   783564k free,    91940k buffers<br \/>\nSwap:  4064312k total,        0k used,  4064312k free,   650100k cached<\/p>\n<p>PID      USER     PR  NI  VIRT    RES   SHR  S %CPU %MEM  TIME+ COMMAND<br \/>\n3093   root       15   0   154m  52m  19m  S  6.3     2.6      2:08.97 firefox-bin<br \/>\n13423 apache 15   0   37636  20m 9m    S  6.0     1.0      0:01.89  httpd<br \/>\n2586    mysql  16    0   138m  28m 4020 S  4.7     1.4      69:12.06 mysqld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a server\/systems administrator you will find the TOP utility very useful to determine top cpu using processes. TOP is the utility for Linux and most Unix operating systems. IBM Aix has it\u2019s own version which does the same job,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=370\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[21,55,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}