On Thu, 20 May 1999, The Tech-Admin Dude wrote:
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> I could add another one, top(1) frequently does that on this machine..
> so whatever answers you get, be sure to forward them to me :).
Blast from the past, but since no one gave you an answer, here
is one suggestion. I used to have this problem all the time until I
discovered that top obeys environment variables. So, you could put the
following in /etc/login.conf (make sure to rebuild the db after editing):
:setenv=TOP='-I -d5'
The -I just means "don't display idle processes," the -d5 means "do 5
cycles then exit." Both are overridable from the command line. You might
want to set the -d value higher so that it's more transparent to the user,
but after setting this up I've never had another runaway top process.
HTH,
Doug
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