On Linux you get http://linux.die.net/man/1/top which is interactive. It's more of a process manager than a process viewer. You can launch it once and then turn columns on and off, change the sort, change the statistic method, renice processes, kill process, etc. all without having to: 1. Quit top. 2. Check man top to see what the commandline options are for the next view you want to see. 3. Relaunch top with the new options. 4. Repeat 1-3 until you've figured out what you want to know. I just heard from one of my friends who is a kernel developer at Yahoo!. He tells me that top on FreeBSD can send signals and change sorting too. I'll have to look into it. On 8/20/07, paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/19/07, Richard Bronosky <BrunosJunk@bronosky.com> wrote:
The top program on Linux is interactive and extremely useful. I find the one on the Mac to be quiet painful to use in comparison.
There doesn't seem to be an port of http://htop.sourceforge.net/ for the Mac.
what doesn't top on OS X do? -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ < paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@mac.com>
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