Top Command in Linux
What is Top Command in Linux Definition: Top command is use for to monitor the processes in Linux operating system, actually top is a task manager similar to windows operating system. Top is most useful system administrative command to monitor the process. The top command is use to view the real time process of the system. Their are different version of top in different operating system.Top in Unix version was written by William LeFebvre since 1984, in Linux top is procps-ng group of tools that was written by Roger Binns, in solaris top is prstat program and in windows top is a task manager. By the use of top command in Linux Operating System user's can view the real time process PID, USER, PR, NI, VIRT, RES, SHR, %CPU, %MEM, TIME and Command , detail information of each are mention below. PID: PID is a process id of each running task. The task may be audit, snmp and etc. USER: User is shows the all users that is owner or custodian of the running process. PR: PR is the priority ...