Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual page 364

Chapter 39. Gathering System Information
Table 39.1, "Interactive top commands"
top. For more information, refer to the top(1) manual page.
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Table 39.1. Interactive top commands
If you prefer a graphical interface for top, you can use the GNOME System Monitor. To start it
from the desktop, select System => Administration => System Monitor or type gnome-system-
monitor at a shell prompt (such as an XTerm). Select the Process Listing tab.
The GNOME System Monitor allows you to search for a process in the list of running processes.
Using the Gnome System Monitor, you can also view all processes, your processes, or active
processes.
The Edit menu item allows you to:
• Stop a process.
• Continue or start a process.
• End a processes.
• Kill a process.
• Change the priority of a selected process.
• Edit the System Monitor preferences. These include changing the interval seconds to refresh the list
and selecting process fields to display in the System Monitor window.
The View menu item allows you to:
• View only active processes.
• View all processes.
• View my processes.
• View process dependencies.
• Hide a process.
• View hidden processes.
• View memory maps.
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contains useful interactive commands that you can use with
Description
Immediately refresh the display
Display a help screen
Kill a process. You are prompted for the process
ID and the signal to send to it.
Change the number of processes displayed. You
are prompted to enter the number.
Sort by user.
Sort by memory usage.
Sort by CPU usage.