What does the top command display?

Answer Posted / nasrin

top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real
time. It displays a listing of the most CPU-intensive tasks
on the system, and can provide an interactive interface for
manipulating processes. It can sort the tasks by CPU usage,
memory usage and runtime.
top displays a variety of information about the processor
state. The display is updated every 5 seconds by default,
which you can change.
it displays
uptime, processes,CPU states, mem. swap and it displays
various information about a process like pid, user, cpu
usage, mem usage, command name etc.

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