cpu useage

[UNCNDL1]

I ran across this command for Terminal in the Navigatrix site and found it interesting. It reports I believe what is running in terms of useage. I need to read more but in a Terminal type this:
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sudo top
I ran it on the gun using crunchbang and found this screen shot:

[kode-niner]

It's a useful tool. I prefer htop, though. If you don't have it installed, just grab it from your repo, like "apt-get install htop" or whatever your distro uses. Also iftop for network interfaces and powertop for laptop power usage is particularly useful.

[SHEEPMAN!]

Thanks gentleman/ladies?, that was new to me.

[kode-niner]

powertop is especially useful when you're trying to eke out every last milliwatt from a laptop's battery and you need to find out what's using it. These days I just haul a half-dozen batteries instead.

Nick.
not a lady

[UNCNDL1]

It's a useful tool. I prefer htop, though. If you don't have it installed, just grab it from your repo, like "apt-get install htop" or whatever your distro uses. Also iftop for network interfaces and powertop for laptop power usage is particularly useful.

Thank you Kode-Niner
I'll try out the code and let you know...cool beans as they say in Pennsylvania...

[kode-niner]

Assuming your system is a Debian derivative:

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sudo apt-get install htop
sudo apt-get install iftop
sudo apt-get install powertop

Powertop needs to be run as root or a superuser

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sudo powertop

Use the tab key to shuffle through powertop displays.

For iftop, it also only runs as root and you may have to supply your interface as an argument. For example:
For wifi:

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sudo iftop -i wlan0

For ethernet:

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sudo iftop -i eth0

For WWAN:

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sudo iftop -i ppp0

If you get command not found and you are using sudo, you may need to supply the full path to iftop (/usr/sbin/iftop for example)

To find out what your interfaces are, just type

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ifconfig

or

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/sbin/ifconfig

ifconfig outputs interface information when used without arguments as above, the interface name should be on the left of each paragraph. You use that name after the -i of the iftop command like the examples above.

There are other arguments for iftop that can be useful. Such as
Show port numbers:

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iftop -i wlan0 -P

Don't resolve IPs

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iftop -i wlan0 -n

[SHEEPMAN!]

Thank you, kode....reading if not replying. Appreciate it.

J'd