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Example 1-11
Display current Linux tasks top
It is very important to know how many jobs or tasks are being run by your Linux machine. Sometime your Linux box gets stupidly very slow. To find why, the first thing to do is to know what are the running tasks and if any of them are using large cpu or large memory. To see the list of tasks and their specifications, use the command top. Once you found the buggy program using large memory or cpu, you can kill it using command kill PID_number_of_the_job.