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6 lxc-top - monitor container statistics
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9 lxc-top [--help] [--delay delay] [--sort sortby] [--reverse]
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12 lxc-top displays container statistics. The output is updated every de‐
13 lay seconds, and is ordered according to the sortby value given. lxc-
14 top will display as many containers as can fit in your terminal. Press
15 'q' to quit. Press one of the sort key letters to sort by that statis‐
16 tic. Pressing a sort key letter a second time reverses the sort order.
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19 -d, --delay delay
20 Amount of time in seconds to delay between screen updates. The
21 default is 3 seconds.
22 -s, --sort sortby
24 Sort the containers by name, cpu use, or memory use. The sortby
25 argument should be one of the letters n,c,b,m,k to sort by name,
26 cpu use, block I/O, memory, or kernel memory use respectively.
27 The default is 'n'.
28 -r, --reverse
30 Reverse the default sort order. By default, names sort in as‐
31 cending alphabetical order and values sort in descending amounts
32 (ie. largest value first).
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35 lxc-top --delay 1 --sort m
36 Display containers, updating every second, sorted by memory use.
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39 For performance reasons the kernel does not account kernel memory use
40 unless a kernel memory limit is set. If a limit is not set, lxc-top
41 will display kernel memory use as 0. If no containers are being ac‐
42 counted, the KMem column will not be displayed. A limit can be set by
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44 lxc.cgroup.memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes = number
46 in your container configuration file, see lxc.conf(5).
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51 lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-
52 stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1),
53 lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1),
54 lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)
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57 Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@oracle.com>
58 2021-09-18 lxc-top(1)