<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> <!-- This file is part of systemd. Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. --> <refentry id="systemd-cgtop" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <refentryinfo> <title>systemd-cgtop</title> <productname>systemd</productname> <authorgroup> <author> <contrib>Developer</contrib> <firstname>Lennart</firstname> <surname>Poettering</surname> <email>lennart@poettering.net</email> </author> </authorgroup> </refentryinfo> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>systemd-cgtop</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>1</manvolnum> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>systemd-cgtop</refname> <refpurpose>Show top control groups by their resource usage</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <cmdsynopsis> <command>systemd-cgtop</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> </cmdsynopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para><command>systemd-cgtop</command> shows the top control groups of the local Linux control group hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory, or disk I/O load. The display is refreshed in regular intervals (by default every 1s), similar in style to <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>top</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If <command>systemd-cgtop</command> is not connected to a tty, only one iteration is performed and no columns headers are printed. This mode is suitable for scripting.</para> <para>Resource usage is only accounted for control groups in the relevant hierarchy, i.e. CPU usage is only accounted for control groups in the <literal>cpuacct</literal> hierarchy, memory usage only for those in <literal>memory</literal> and disk I/O usage for those in <literal>blkio</literal>. If resource monitoring for these resources is required, it is recommended to add the <varname>CPUAccounting=1</varname>, <varname>MemoryAccounting=1</varname> and <varname>BlockIOAccounting=1</varname> settings in the unit files in question. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details.</para> <para>To emphasize this: unless <literal>CPUAccounting=1</literal>, <literal>MemoryAccounting=1</literal> and <literal>BlockIOAccounting=1</literal> are enabled for the services in question, no resource accounting will be available for system services and the data shown by <command>systemd-cgtop</command> will be incomplete.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Options</title> <para>The following options are understood:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><option>-p</option></term> <listitem><para>Order by control group path name.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-t</option></term> <listitem><para>Order by number of tasks in control group (i.e. threads and processes).</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-c</option></term> <listitem><para>Order by CPU load.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-m</option></term> <listitem><para>Order by memory usage.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-i</option></term> <listitem><para>Order by disk I/O load.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-b</option></term> <term><option>--batch</option></term> <listitem><para>Run in "batch" mode: do not accept input and run until the iteration limit set with <option>--iterations</option> is exhausted or until killed. This mode could be useful for sending output from <command>systemd-cgtop</command> to other programs or to a file.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-n</option></term> <term><option>--iterations=</option></term> <listitem><para>Perform only this many iterations. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-d</option></term> <term><option>--delay=</option></term> <listitem><para>Specify refresh delay in seconds (or if one of <literal>ms</literal>, <literal>us</literal>, <literal>min</literal> is specified as unit in this time unit).</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>--depth=</option></term> <listitem><para>Maximum control group tree traversal depth. Specifies how deep <command>systemd-cgtop</command> shall traverse the control group hierarchies. If 0 is specified, only the root group is monitored. For 1, only the first level of control groups is monitored, and so on. Defaults to 3.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" /> <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" /> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Keys</title> <para><command>systemd-cgtop</command> is an interactive tool and may be controlled via user input using the following keys:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>h</term> <listitem><para>Shows a short help text.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>SPACE</term> <listitem><para>Immediately refresh output.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>q</term> <listitem><para>Terminate the program.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>p</term> <term>t</term> <term>c</term> <term>m</term> <term>i</term> <listitem><para>Sort the control groups by path, number of tasks, CPU load, memory usage, or IO load, respectively. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>%</term> <listitem><para>Toggle between showing CPU time as time or percentage.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>+</term> <term>-</term> <listitem><para>Increase or decrease refresh delay, respectively.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Exit status</title> <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>See Also</title> <para> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-cgls</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>top</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> </para> </refsect1> </refentry>