top

Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. More information: https://manned.org/top.

• Start top:

top

• Do not show any idle or zombie processes:

top -i

• Show only processes owned by given user:

top -u username

• Sort processes by a field:

top -o field_name

• Show the individual threads of a given process:

top -Hp process_id

• Show only the processes with the given PID(s), passed as a comma-separated list. (Normally you wouldn't know PIDs off hand. This example picks the PIDs from the process name):

top -p $(pgrep -d ',' process_name)

• Display help about interactive commands:

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