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How to find the process(es) which are hogging the machine

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Mar 15, 202615554 views
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Problem

Scenario: All of a sudden, my computer feels sluggish. Mouse moves but windows take ages to open, etc. says the load is 7.69 and raising. What is the fastest way to find out which process(es) are the cause of the load? Now, "top" and similar tools isn't the answer because they either show CPU or me…

Error Output

1235 cp - Disk trashing
   87 chrome - Uses 2 GB of RAM
  137 nfs_bench - Uses 95% of the network bandwidth

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Fix for: How to find the process(es) which are hogging the machine

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"top" works reasonably well, as long as you look at the right numbers. Let's see: Now, if the system is slow because CPU is all taken, it shows as "us" and "sy" columns on "Cpu(s):" row being close to 100% together. If it's slow due to swapping, "Me…

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