Listing 1. Sample top Output

top - 14:08:25 up 38 days, 8:02, 1 user, load average: 1.70, 1.77, 1.68
Tasks: 107 total,   3 running, 104 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.4%us, 29.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 58.3%id, .7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem:   1024176k total,   997408k used,    26768k free,    85520k buffers
Swap:  1004052k total,     4360k used,   999692k free,   286040k cached

  PID USER    PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 9463 mysql   16   0  686m 111m 3328 S   53  5.5 569:17.64 mysqld
18749 nagios  16   0  140m 134m 1868 S   12  6.6   1345:01 nagios2db_status
24636 nagios  17   0 34660  10m  712 S    8  0.5   1195:15 nagios
22442 nagios  24   0  6048 2024 1452 S    8  0.1   0:00.04 check_time.pl