Thanks Larry - that was it - added procps and now works alot better...
cheers Simon
[/cygdrive/h] Bash ver:2.05b.0 Wed Feb 18
$ man top
TOP(1) Linux User's Manual
TOP(1)
NAME
top - display top CPU processes
SYNOPSIS
top [-] [d delay] [p pid] [q] [c] [C] [S] [s] [i] [n iter] [b]
DESCRIPTION
top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time.
It
displays a listing of the most CPU-intensive tasks on the system,
and
can provide an interactive interface for manipulating processes.
It
can sort the tasks by CPU usage, memory usage and runtime. can be
bet-
ter configured than the standard top from the procps suite. Most
fea-
tures can either be selected by an interactive command or by
specifying
the feature in the personal or system-wide configuration file.
See
below for more information.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: good top program for Cygwin
> Then you either do not have the 'top' that's part of Cygwin or your
> environment is incorrect. Try installing/upgrading the procps package.
> There's a man page for the Cygwin version of 'top' that comes with this
> package. I don't know if this will help you with the issue you originally
> had or not but the documentation for Cygwin's 'top' is definitely
available.
>
> Larry
>
>
> At 09:07 AM 2/18/2004, Simon you wrote:
> >Of course :
> > $ man top
> >No manual entry for top
> >
> >Simon
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:42 PM
> >Subject: Re: good top program for Cygwin
> >
> >
> >> At 10:32 AM 2/17/2004, Simon you wrote:
> >>
> >> >Anyone know of a decent top program to run from the command line?
> >> >The one i have with cygwin installation has no help
> >>
> >>
> >> Did you try 'man top'?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
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