NAME

       ptop — display sorted information about processes

SYNOPSIS

       ptop [--debug]

DESCRIPTION

       ptop  periodically displays a sorted list of system processes.  Processes are sorted with the highest CPU
       users at the top.  CPU usage is measured from when ptop was started, to  make  the  list  stabilize  over
       time.

       The top screen line shows you the system load.  The number tells you how many processes want to run right
       now, check getloadavg(3) for details.

       The  histogram  shows  you how system load has evolved over the last fifteen minutes.  The current system
       load is at the right of the histogram.

       The green / yellow / red bar shows you the current system load in relation to the number of cores on  the
       system.   Green  means load on physical cores, yellow means load on logical cores, and red means that the
       system load is higher than the number of cores available on the system.

       To exit ptop, press ‘q’.

       With the --debug flag, extra log messages are sometimes printed after ptop finishes.

PROCESS NAMING

       ptop tries to be helpful about naming processes, and avoid printing names of various VMs.

       For example, if you do ‘java -jar foo.jar’, ptop will show this process as ‘foo.jar’ rather than ‘java’.

       ptop parses command lines from:

       •   Java

       •   Python

       •   Node

       •   Ruby

       •   Various shells

       •   Perl

SEE ALSO

       px(1), pxtree(1), top(1)

HOMEPAGE

       ptop lives at http://github.com/walles/px

Debian                                           August 26, 2018                                         PTOP(1)