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15.2) "top"


On your system, type top:

top

You will see various attributes of the program that is running such as the unique PID identifier, the amount of RAM memory usage, how long it has been running, the % of CPU, and so on.

To exit the top command, you type ‘q’ and it will return you back to the prompt.

This explains the screen that you see when you use the top command.