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<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>.</para>
<para>If <command>systemd-cgtop</command> is not connected to a tty, no
column headers are printed and the default is to only run one iteration.
The <varname>--iterations</varname> argument, if given, is still honored.
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>The CPU load value can be between 0 and 100 times the number of
processors the system has. For example, if the system has 8 processors,
the CPU load value is going to be between 0% and 800%. The number of
processors can be found in <literal>/proc/cpuinfo</literal>.</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>-r</option></term>
<term><option>--raw</option></term>
<listitem><para>Format byte counts (as in memory usage and IO metrics)
with raw numeric values rather than human-readable
numbers.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-n</option></term>
<term><option>--iterations=</option></term>
<listitem><para>Perform only this many iterations. A value of 0
indicates that the program should run indefinitely.</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>