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top is a excellect utility to figure out how much cpu is being used by what process. You can also check pid's and memory usage.

Flags

  • k kill aprocess
  • r change processes priority. positive number will decrease the priority and negative number will increase it.
  • s display update rate
  • P sort by processor usage
  • M sort by memory usage
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