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Lisa
Asked: 2012-03-22 21:28:50 +0800 CST

How/Where do I check my ubuntu laptops's CPU usage?

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How/Where do I check my ubuntu laptops's CPU usage?

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3 Answers

  1. HTOP

    is a lightweight text-mode process viewer packed with handy features such as killing processes without entering their PID, displaying full command lines, etc with a colour display

    How to install

    open your Terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T ) and Type

    sudo apt-get install htop

    To run: type htop This will show what you are asking. .

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  2. In your dash i.e. pressing super key search for system monitor application.

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    If you are comfortable with command line there are tools like top and htop where cpu usage can be viewed as well.

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  3. As said in previous answer you can use system monitor which is the best tool. If you want more information you can try some commands on terminal

    top - its a command to see all the processes and their CPU usage. Just read the screen carefully and you would find lot of other useful information there. you can press Ctrl+c to close it.

    Or you can also try cat /proc/cpuinfo - for other information about cpu

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