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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="commandline">
+ <info>
+ <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#other" group="other" />
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Phil Bull</name>
+ <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2011</years>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Michael Hill</name>
+ <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2014</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <desc>Information in System Monitor can also be found using command line
+ tools.</desc>
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Get the same information from the command line</title>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull@gmail.com">Phil Bull</cite>
+ <p>Briefly list a few useful command line tools which can provide some of
+ the same information as System Monitor. Don't go into too much detail.</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <p>Most of the information displayed by System Monitor can also be obtained
+ using these command line tools.</p>
+
+<table rules="rows" frame="top bottom">
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><p><cmd>top</cmd></p></td>
+ <td><p>provides a continually updated list of running processes, and
+ allows you to manipulate them.</p></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><p><cmd>lsof</cmd></p></td>
+ <td><p>provides a list of open files and the processes that opened
+ them.</p></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><p><cmd>free -m</cmd></p></td>
+ <td><p>shows you how much memory is available.</p></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><p><cmd>vmstat</cmd></p></td>
+ <td><p>provides information about current virtual memory use.</p></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><p><cmd>df -h</cmd></p></td>
+ <td><p>displays available disk space on mounted filesystems.</p></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><p><cmd>pmap</cmd></p></td>
+ <td><p>displays the memory map of a process.</p></td>
+ </tr>
+
+</table>
+
+</page>