Top has been with Unix and unix-like systems long before Redhat was even thought of. It is a standard part of the ps toolset and has existed in Linux even in the old kmem-based versions of ps since kernel 0.98. This was before /proc was in the linux kernel. To get good use out of top consier the following: run top. hit m l and t to optionally turn off load averages memroy stats and totals. Now hit i for no-idle mode. This will only show processes that aren't sleeping. Now hit capital W to save settings into ~/.toprc Assuming you have procps installed top should exist on just about all Linux distributions. On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:56:18AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > Charles Crawford writes: > > > > What is top and how do we use it? > > > It is a high-level, system monitoring application provided on Red Hat systems. It is designed to provide an ongoing, > constantly updated view of system status. > > It's a command. Run it as root, and silence Speakup with Numpad-Insert+Enter. Then use Speakup's screen review commands > to read the screen. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
