unRaid/Linux "Task Manager"...


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What is the equivalent to Windows Task Manager for unRaid/Linux?  Something that shows what apps are running and who is consuming resources.  My system is not doing anything (at least as far as I know), yet its busy accessing several of the drives.  Probably just some internal cleanup, but I like to keep abreast of what's going on in my systems and when I see something that does not feel right, I like to understand...

 

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Both PTOP and HTOP are nice tools.  Just what I was looking for.  Is there another tool that I can lookup the COMMAND to determine which app it belongs to?  Some of the commands are clear, but some are not.  For instance:

 

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The first process DD I think is the preclear script running (I just started that).  But I'm guessing because its the most processor at the moment and I'm not doing anything else...

 

Thanks!

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Both PTOP and HTOP are nice tools.  Just what I was looking for.  Is there another tool that I can lookup the COMMAND to determine which app it belongs to?  Some of the commands are clear, but some are not.  For instance:

 

The first process DD I think is the preclear script running (I just started that).  But I'm guessing because its the most processor at the moment and I'm not doing anything else...

 

Thanks!

 

the stuff under the Command heading is the process that is running. It's a bit like Task Manager (at least for me...) in that some of the names are really hard to dissect to know where the process is coming from.

 

DD is called as part of the preclear script, so that's a safe bet.

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Both PTOP and HTOP are nice tools.  Just what I was looking for.  Is there another tool that I can lookup the COMMAND to determine which app it belongs to?  Some of the commands are clear, but some are not.

 

I'm not familiar with ptop or htop, but your problem is that parent process ids (ppid) are not being shown - perhaps there is an option to add the ppid column..  If you run the 'old-fashioned' ps command with the -f (full) switch, then ppids are shown and you can see which process spawned the process in question.

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