[Sunhelp] About top

David Rouse drouse1 at nc.rr.com
Thu Oct 19 15:38:59 CDT 2000


on 10/19/00 1:35 AM, John Lee at johnlee at sc23.sc.mcel.mot.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I found the output of the tool "top" and the solaris command
> "/usr/ucb/ps -aux" are very similar. So my question is: Do we need the tool
> "top" in Solaris ?

If you are using the CDE there is a 'Find Process' thing that auto-refreshes
and has much of what ps -aux shows. I also think that it does logging (I
don't use CDE at home, so I can't check).

But I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that top was a bad thing.


-- 
drouse






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