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type="topic" style="task"
id="commandline">
<info>
<revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/>
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<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Phil Bull</name>
<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
<years>2011</years>
</credit>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
<years>2014</years>
</credit>
<desc>Information in System Monitor can also be found using command line
tools.</desc>
</info>
<title>Get the same information from the command line</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull@gmail.com">Phil Bull</cite>
<p>Briefly list a few useful command line tools which can provide some of
the same information as System Monitor. Don't go into too much detail.</p>
</comment>
<p>Most of the information displayed by System Monitor can also be obtained
using these command line tools.</p>
<table rules="rows" frame="top bottom">
<tr>
<td><p><cmd>top</cmd></p></td>
<td><p>provides a continually updated list of running processes, and
allows you to manipulate them.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><cmd>lsof</cmd></p></td>
<td><p>provides a list of open files and the processes that opened
them.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><cmd>free -m</cmd></p></td>
<td><p>shows you how much memory is available.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><cmd>vmstat</cmd></p></td>
<td><p>provides information about current virtual memory use.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><cmd>df -h</cmd></p></td>
<td><p>displays available disk space on mounted filesystems.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><cmd>pmap</cmd></p></td>
<td><p>displays the memory map of a process.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</page>
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