top - console command that shows a constantly updated list of all the processes and how many resources they are consuming. you can also kill processes from inside this app. see screen scrape below.
On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 10:21 +0200, Johnny Kewl wrote: > do you have anything like the task manager in linux > that windows has... top - 20:06:31 up 8:04, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.02 Tasks: 165 total, 1 running, 164 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.2%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1026560k total, 914004k used, 112556k free, 65556k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 60k used, 2031548k free, 510136k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2835 root 20 0 292m 23m 9.9m S 2.0 2.4 9:47.50 Xorg 3518 me 20 0 99200 25m 13m S 0.3 2.6 0:13.63 gnome-terminal 11612 me 20 0 2492 1060 800 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.02 top 1 root 20 0 1948 744 536 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.10 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.33 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 ksoftirqd/1 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 events/0 10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 events/1 11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 62 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 63 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1 65 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kacpid 66 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.31 kacpi_notify 176 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue 178 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd 183 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 186 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kseriod 230 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 231 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.29 pdflush 232 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 kswapd0 275 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 276 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1 440 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused 481 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0 482 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1 483 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 487 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 488 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 489 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2 490 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_3 494 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kstriped 504 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksnapd 508 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_4 509 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_5