Getting More out of Top

How to configure top(1) to show you interesting information. Some of the keys used in this video:

z Turn on color
H Show threads
d Set the delay
1 Show SMP CPU info
i Show only non-idle processes/threads
f Add fields to your top display
F Pick which field to sort on

Handy things I missed:

W Write out your config to a .toprc file

The watch command I used was:

watch -d cat /proc/interrupts

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  Science & Technology

[Felipe Jarenau]

Thank you for this video! I have learn a lot of top.

Can you tell me how did you do this video? I mean, the software you used to record it.

[elspuddo]

I used ScreenFlow under OSX to record and edit the video. I used Audacity to edit out my breathing noises and a number of 'uhs' and 'ums' from the audio. Apparently I haven't yet learned to move away from the mic to breathe in.

[gripmaster79]

Thanks you very much. Excellent explanation.

[asqui]

Thanks for making this great video. MySQL DBA here who has used top in a very basic manner for years. I picked up a few very useful things - I'll = use top a lot more to diagnose things now that I can split by threads and cpu cores.

[Rodolfo Borges]

is a "flavour" of linux.

basically linux is composed of many independent softwares, and to make a distro (short of distrubution) is to bundle all of it, configure it, create an installation program, many times adding branding, and package it all for distribution to the users.

[Dennis Roberts]

Thank you for this great video!

[Benjamin Chodroff]

I've been using top for years and I learned a lot watching this -- thank you!

[MrMcDugan]

How do you change your font size so quickly? 

[RecursiveQuery]

Excellent video it good to see something beyond "Hurp-a-derp this is how you install this distribution". I hope you make more.

[clintfisher]

Nice vid elspuddo! I had no idea that Top had so much hidden functionality!