How Do You Find Which Process Is Taking How Much Cpu in Unix?
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User mmouse is at the top of the list, and the “TIME” column shows that the program desert.exe has used 292 minutes and 20 seconds of CPU time. This is the most interactive way to see CPU usage.

How do you find which process is taking how much CPU in Linux?

How To Check CPU Usage from Linux Command Line

  1. top Command to View Linux CPU Load. Open a terminal window and enter the following: top. …
  2. mpstat Command to Display CPU Activity. …
  3. sar Command to Show CPU Utilization. …
  4. iostat Command for Average Usage. …
  5. Nmon Monitoring Tool. …
  6. Graphical Utility Option.

How do I check CPU usage in Unix?

Unix command to find CPU Utilization

  1. => sar : System activity reporter.
  2. => mpstat : Report per-processor or per-processor-set statistics.
  3. Note: Linux specific CPU utilization information is here. Following information applies to UNIX only.
  4. General syntax is as follows: sar t [n]
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