This one’s really easy.
Most people are familiar with the Windows Task Manager, where you can see all currently running processes, how much memory they’re taking up and so on.
The Linux equivalent of this is top, and to the best of my knowledge works in every Linux distro there is.
Simply run a terminal, type top, press Enter. That’s it.
See video below for an example of how it works.

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top-c command also gives you a detailed image
Yo, Rich. CTRL-ESC brings up a very nice graphical system monitor in Plasma (KDE).
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I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, GrabPenny.com
Hi
Good article….I appreciate your work.
thanks a lot