Monitoring Resource Usage in Ubuntu with top

When you want to monitor the resources that are being used by your processes, the top command comes in handy. You can see a breakdown of the CPU usage by process, and memory usage as well. There are a few things I use top for regularly. To monitor whether the CPU usage is too high. To monitor whether Memory usage is too high.  — This can be misleading sometimes because of cache issues. To monitor whether the machine has entered into SWAP...

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