NAME

       lxc-top - monitor container statistics

SYNOPSIS

       lxc-top [--help] [--delay delay] [--sort sortby] [--reverse]

DESCRIPTION

       lxc-top  displays  container  statistics.  The  output  is  updated  every  delay seconds, and is ordered
       according to the sortby value given. lxc-top will display as many containers as can fit in your terminal.
       Press  'q'  to  quit.  Press  one  of the sort key letters to sort by that statistic. Pressing a sort key
       letter a second time reverses the sort order.

OPTIONS

       -d, --delay delay
              Amount of time in seconds to delay between screen updates.  The default is 3 seconds.

       -s, --sort sortby
              Sort the containers by name, cpu use, or memory use. The sortby argument  should  be  one  of  the
              letters  n,c,b,m,k to sort by name, cpu use, block I/O, memory, or kernel memory use respectively.
              The default is 'n'.

       -r, --reverse
              Reverse the default sort order. By default, names sort in ascending alphabetical order and  values
              sort in descending amounts (ie. largest value first).

EXAMPLE

       lxc-top --delay 1 --sort m
              Display containers, updating every second, sorted by memory use.

NOTES

       For  performance  reasons  the  kernel does not account kernel memory use unless a kernel memory limit is
       set. If a limit is not set, lxc-top will display kernel memory use as  0.  If  no  containers  are  being
       accounted, the KMem column will not be displayed. A limit can be set by specifying

             lxc.cgroup.memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes = number

       in your container configuration file, see lxc.conf(5).

SEE ALSO

       lxc(7),  lxc-create(1),  lxc-copy(1),  lxc-destroy(1),  lxc-start(1),  lxc-stop(1),  lxc-execute(1), lxc-
       console(1), lxc-monitor(1),  lxc-wait(1),  lxc-cgroup(1),  lxc-ls(1),  lxc-info(1),  lxc-freeze(1),  lxc-
       unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@oracle.com>

                                                   2022-02-04                                         lxc-top(1)