How to view your active processes in Terminal.
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14 years ago 18 |
If you're coming from Windows you know how sometimes you want to find out quickly what process is taking the most RAM and other useful information.
There is a very simple terminal command you can run in Mint to show you a very comprehensive list!
1. Open up Gnome-Terminal:
Press Alt+F2 and type in gnome-terminal. Your Terminal window should pop up.
2. Inside of the Terminal:
Type in the word top and you should see a nice list of processes and how much ram they are using.
That's all there is to it! It's very simple to use and very simple to read. Have fun!
Comments
@D3ny
Press H for options and Q to quit
I am running Mint 17 and had a DVD in the drive and selected 'VIdeo' to play it. The window opened, sound started, and the system hung. Alt-f2 had no effect and Alt-ft followed by typed in gnome-terminal also had no effect. I ended up doing an emergency shutdown.
nice
alternative command "ps aux" or "ps aux | grep name_app_running"
another simple way to check on things that windoze missed !!!
@Inhuman_4 I gave a try to "htop" but I turned back to "top" when it's colors were confusing me... I.. Oh... It's starting again! :)
- Apologize because of this joke. -
While must people will likely prefer to use a gui. For those of us who like using the command line, or use ssh a lot, I recommend "htop".
htop is an improved version of top. It adds colour coding, percentage bars, and a generally cleaner interface. If you are a trying to check your systems performance in the command line, install htop and give it a try.
I prefer more user-friendly way:
MintMenu -> All applications -> Administration -> System Monitor
htop is far superior than top if you must use a terminal application for this.
Most windows users would rather run a mile than use a terminal. It would be much simpler to direct them to system-monitor, which whilst not as comprehensive is at least a gui. Also your tutorial doesn't explain how to use top to do anything, and how to get out it.