top command to display system performance

top command in linux displays system statistics along with running processes and their consumption in real time. The processes are listed in order of resource utilization with maximum consuming processes in the beginning followed by decreasing consumption. Command

top -c

The first few lines displays some additional information such as top displays uptime information Tasks displays process status information %Cpu(s) displays various processor values MiB Mem displays physical memory utilization MiB Swap displays virtual memory utilization