Monitor the system load

To monitor the CPU and RAM load of the system use

$ top
Mem: 736452K used, 2950072K free, 55532K shrd, 9344K buff, 242852K cached
CPU:   0% usr   0% sys   0% nic  99% idle   0% io   0% irq   0% sirq
Load average: 1.81 0.52 0.18 1/188 1366
PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
1366  1286 root     R     3572   0%   0% top
40     2 root     SWN      0   0%   0% [khugepaged]
1182     1 root     S     449m  12%   0% /usr/bin/weston -c /run/simplecore-weston.ini --log=/run/weston.log --modules=systemd-notify.so
1313  1302 root     S     113m   3%   0% python3 /usr/bin/simpletrace --port=8086 /apps/simpletrace
788     1 root     S<    103m   3%   0% /usr/bin/wireplumber
223     1 root     S    99488   3%   0% /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
598     1 systemd- S    83112   2%   0% /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd
1261  1182 root     S    42816   1%   0% /usr/libexec/weston-desktop-shell
1260  1182 root     S    39288   1%   0% /usr/libexec/weston-keyboard
784     1 pipewire S<   38816   1%   0% /usr/bin/pipewire
785     1 root     S    34244   1%   0% /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
256     1 root     S    20700   1%   0% /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
796     1 root     S<   16992   0%   0% /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Exit the top session

Press CTRL+C to quit.

If you only want a one-time snapshot run

$ top -bn1