type="topic" style="task"

      id="commandline">

  <info>

    <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/>

    <link type="guide" xref="index#other" group="other" />

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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>

    Phil Bull

    
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.

  </comment>

  
Most of the information displayed by System Monitor can also be obtained

  using these command line tools.

	
<cmd>top</cmd>

	
provides a continually updated list of running processes, and

        allows you to manipulate them.

	
<cmd>lsof</cmd>

	
provides a list of open files and the processes that opened

        them.

	
<cmd>free -m</cmd>

	
shows you how much memory is available.

	
<cmd>vmstat</cmd>

	
provides information about current virtual memory use.

	
<cmd>df -h</cmd>

	
displays available disk space on mounted filesystems.

	
<cmd>pmap</cmd>

	
displays the memory map of a process.

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