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DirectAdmin Process Monitor

The DirectAdmin Process Monitor tool permits you to see the running server’s processes. It displays mainly the output of the top command.

This KB article is intended for DirectAdmin admin users.

How to access the Process Monitor interface:

1. Enter your DirectAdmin area

2. Navigate to Admin Tools >> Process Monitor

3. Here, you will see the running processes on the server. You can set a reload interval for the list, you can send signals to processes, search, sort them etc.

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DirectAdmin Process Monitor Interface

You can run yourself the top command. You just need to connect first to the server via SSH.

# top
[root@web ~]# top
top - 15:22:02 up  7:10,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks:  93 total,   1 running,  92 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.1 us,  0.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.8 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem :  1310720 total,   793664 free,   293812 used,   223244 buff/cache
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used.   894420 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
  868 named     20   0 1333040  47836   3404 S   2.0  3.6   1:34.59 named
   83 root      20   0   37896   6828   6516 S   0.3  0.5   0:21.53 systemd-journal
  117 root      20   0   26352   1704   1412 S   0.3  0.1   0:01.46 systemd-logind
  134 dbus      20   0   26524   1692   1348 S   0.3  0.1   0:02.71 dbus-daemon
  407 root      20   0  179976   2020   1424 S   0.3  0.2   0:08.53 rsyslogd
  815 apache    20   0  203572   9096   3136 S   0.3  0.7   0:04.11 httpd
    1 root      20   0  192680   3640   2296 S   0.0  0.3   0:04.25 systemd
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd/23044
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.08 khelper/23044
   80 root      20   0   41464   1692   1252 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.01 systemd-udevd
  408 root      20   0    6408    804    684 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 agetty
  411 root      20   0   22752   1524    908 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.16 crond
  412 root      20   0    6408    804    684 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 agetty
  413 mail      20   0   62516   3180   2416 S   0.0  0.2   0:00.03 exim
  423 root      20   0   18940   1656   1320 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.02 dovecot
  425 mysql     20   0    9476   1496   1208 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mysqld_safe
  475 root      20   0   19316    556    352 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.25 da-popb4smtp
..........


You can read more about Linux signals at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_signal

The YouTube tutorial for this KB post:

DirectAdmin Process Monitor

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