Thank you so much Mr Girish Venkatachalam.

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:36 AM, srinivas m <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> >   Good morning. I want to know about top command.
>
> Good morning.
>
> What do you want to know?
>
> top can be used in '-b' mode which is useful for batch output.
>
> You can parse the output for knowing load avg,CPU,RAM and swap usage.
>
> And you can sort display based on processes using most CPU or RAM or RSS
> size.
>
> Top is a good indication of the health of the OS.
>
> Recently I had a very queer situation which I was running relayd in
> OpenBSD.
>
> The machine was very very slow and I figured out that no process was
> hogging CPU but
>  the kernel was the culprit.
>
> To know that top helped. The system usage was more than 87%.
>
> -Girish
>
>
>
> --
> Gayatri Hitech
> http://gayatri-hitech.com
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