podman-container-top(1)

1podman-top(1)()                                                podman-top(1)()
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NAME

6       podman-top - Display the running processes of a container
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SYNOPSIS

10       podman top [options] container [format-descriptors]
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DESCRIPTION

17       Display  the running processes of the container. The format-descriptors
18       are ps (1) compatible AIX format  descriptors  but  extended  to  print
19       additional information, such as the seccomp mode or the effective capa‐
20       bilities of a given process. The descriptors can either  be  passed  as
21       separated  arguments or as a single comma-separated argument. Note that
22       you can also specify options and or flags of ps(1); in this case,  Pod‐
23       man  will  fallback  to  executing  ps with the specified arguments and
24       flags in the container.
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OPTIONS

28       --help, -h
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38       container.  If you use methods other than Podman to run containers such
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43       The latest option is not supported on the remote client.
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FORMAT DESCRIPTORS

47       The  following  descriptors are supported in addition to the AIX format
48       descriptors mentioned in ps (1):
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51       args, capbnd, capeff, capinh, capprm, comm, etime, group, hgroup, hpid,
52       huser,  label,  nice,  pcpu,  pgid,  pid, ppid, rgroup, ruser, seccomp,
53       state, time, tty, user, vsz
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111       Seccomp mode of the process (i.e., disabled,  strict  or  filter).  See
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EXAMPLES

123       By default, podman-top prints data similar to ps -ef:
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127              USER   PID   PPID   %CPU    ELAPSED         TTY     TIME   COMMAND
128              root   1     0      0.000   20.386825206s   pts/0   0s     sh
129              root   7     1      0.000   16.386882887s   pts/0   0s     sleep
130              root   8     1      0.000   11.386886562s   pts/0   0s     vi
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134       The output can be controlled by specifying format descriptors as  argu‐
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138              $ podman top -l pid seccomp args %C
139              PID   SECCOMP   COMMAND     %CPU
140              1     filter    sh          0.000
141              8     filter    vi /etc/    0.000
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145       Podman  will fallback to executing ps(1) in the container if an unknown
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149              $ podman top -l -- aux
150              USER   PID   PPID   %CPU    ELAPSED             TTY   TIME   COMMAND
151              root   1     0      0.000   1h2m12.497061672s   ?     0s     sleep 100000
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HISTORY

160       July 2018, Introduce format descriptors  by  Valentin  Rothberg  vroth‐
161       berg@suse.com ⟨mailto:vrothberg@suse.com⟩
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164       December  2017,  Originally  compiled  by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com
165       ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
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