Kay C Lan wrote:
> I wanted to know what was using my memory and CPU and using top
> was always going to place itself in the list. This is understandable
> as top is active whilst the id, ps, and vm_stat are all static, but I
> notice that even Activity Monitor with all it's bells and whistles
> uses significantly less CPU than top.
You can run top just once with:
top -bn1
But even more fun, you can take a trip back to 1997 to read Scott
Raney's article in Linux Journal about using LiveCode (back then called
"MetaCard") to build a GUI for top:
<http://porky.linuxjournal.com:8080/LJ/043/2110.html>
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