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| - | The top lines give you some summary information about the system, but you should monitor the memory usage (''VIRT'' and ''RES''), ''CPU'' and ''TIME'' columns. By default, ''top'' will will put the processes using the more CPU at the top (as shown above). You can see above that the ''emacs'' text editor has clearly crashed, because it should not use 100% CPU for such a long time | + | The top lines give you some summary information about the system, but you should monitor the memory usage (''VIRT'' and ''RES''), ''CPU'' and ''TIME+'' columns. By default, ''top'' will will put the processes using the more CPU at the top (as shown above). You can see above that the ''emacs'' text editor has clearly crashed, because it should not use 100% CPU for such a long time |
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| + | * The ''TIME+'' information is in //minutes// (e.g. ''5432:01'' means //5432 minutes and 1 second//, ''25:15.20'' means //25 minutes, 15 seconds and 20% of 1 second//) | ||
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| + | * Memory usage: | ||
| + | * ''%MEM'' (Kb): percentage of the total available **physical memory** used by a process. This is based on ''RES'', the **non-swapped physical memory** used by a process | ||
| + | * ''VIRT'' (Kb): total amount of **virtual memory** (i.e. memory temporarily swapped/saved to disk) used by a process. It includes all code, data and shared libraries plus pages that have been swapped out and pages that have been mapped but not used | ||
| + | * The ''free'' command can display the memory usage of a server at a given time. ''available'' is an estimation of how much memory is available for starting new applications, without swapping | ||
| + | * <code> % free -ht | ||
| + | total used free shared buff/cache available | ||
| + | Mem: 62G 1.5G 56G 11M 5.0G 60G | ||
| + | Swap: 62G 1.7G 60G | ||
| + | Total: 125G 3.3G 116G</code> | ||
| If you type ''M'', the processes will be sorted my memory usage, as shown below | If you type ''M'', the processes will be sorted my memory usage, as shown below | ||
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| There are **lots of text editors available** on Linux computers/servers (''emacs'', ''nano'', ''vi'', ''vim'', ''gvim'', ''gedit'', ...). You can use them: | There are **lots of text editors available** on Linux computers/servers (''emacs'', ''nano'', ''vi'', ''vim'', ''gvim'', ''gedit'', ...). You can use them: | ||
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| * In basic **text terminals** | * In basic **text terminals** | ||
| - | * useful if you are in a hurry, and/or working on a remote server with a bad network connection or have no local [[other:x_conf|X server]] running | + | * **If you only need to read a text file**, use a //pager// like [[http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less|less]] (or ''more''): ''less my_text_file.txt'' |
| - | * you should know the basic commands and shortcuts! Some text editors (e.g ''nano'') fortunately display some help at the bottom of the screen | + | * ''SPACE'' goes down one page |
| + | * ''b'' (//back//) goes back one page | ||
| + | * ''/STRING'' looks for ''STRING'' in the text (then ''n''ext, ''p''revious, ''q''uit) | ||
| + | * ''q'' exits | ||
| + | * **[[#gnu_nano|nano]] is probably the easiest editor in text mode** to use! | ||
| + | * Useful if you are in a hurry, and/or working on a remote server with a bad network connection or have no local [[other:x_conf|X server]] running | ||
| + | * You should know the basic commands and shortcuts! | ||
| * With a **full Graphical User Interface** (aka //GUI//) allowing you to use the mouse+menus/buttons/etc... | * With a **full Graphical User Interface** (aka //GUI//) allowing you to use the mouse+menus/buttons/etc... | ||
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| <note important>Read the **dedicated [[other:emacs_doc|Using emacs]] page**, and become a power user!</note> | <note important>Read the **dedicated [[other:emacs_doc|Using emacs]] page**, and become a power user!</note> | ||
| + | === Gnu nano === | ||
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| + | <note tip>Gnu [[https://www.nano-editor.org/|nano]] is probably the easiest text editor in text mode to use!</note> | ||
| + | You can easily view/edit a file by just typing ''nano my_text_file.txt'' in a terminal, and looking at the instructions displayed at the bottom of the screen (e.g. ''^X Exit'' means that you can exit the editor by typing ''CTRL-X'') | ||
| === vi (vim, gvim) === | === vi (vim, gvim) === | ||
other/newppl/starting.txt · Last modified: 2024/04/24 12:37 by jypeter
