How do I list currently running processes in Linux?

petulia3478

$ /usr/bin/top
top - 10:37:38 up  4:22,  4 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.00
Tasks: 116 total,   1 running, 114 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    384452k total,   340464k used,    43988k free,    62532k buffers
Swap:  1048568k total,        0k used,  1048568k free,   136800k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    1 root      15   0  2040  636  544 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.59 init
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.08 events/0
    6 root      14  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    7 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
   10 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 kblockd/0
   11 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   72 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/0
   75 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd

q or Ctrl-C to quit.

Or, in an XTerm or a GNOME terminal:

# /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor