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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Top - what is it and do I need it? Date: 8 Jan 1994 17:13:12 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2gmpj8$tp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <tmcCJAqoB.5L@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca Keywords: top In article <tmcCJAqoB.5L@netcom.com>, Tom Crockett <tmc@netcom.com> wrote: >Occasionally I've seen references to what must be a system mgt. >tool named 'top'. archie -s top returns lots of getopts :) but >not top. top is sort of like a dynamic ps---it tells you information about process, and updates itself every few seconds if left runing. it's not -necessary-, but it's kinda cool, because it orders things in ways that ps doesn't naturaaly do. there is a netbsd port of it available from alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu in /netbsd/.../ports and binkley.cs.mcgill.ca:/pub/NetBSD/..../ports i assume that freebsd has a port in freebsd.cdrom.com as well. marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--