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[Steve Sandau]

"Stephen D. B. Wolthusen" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 29-Aug-2002 Michael A. Turner wrote:
> >       I cannot, for the life of me, remember the command that shows what
> > process are using X amount of memory and Y amount of processor. Command
> > returned a nice looking table with updating values. I remember using this on
> > my school sparc machines and I cannot remember the command on the one I am
> > working on. Any one have a clue what it is?
> >       Could also be that it was something the admins at school installed
> > to watch for runaway processes (which is a common occurrence on machines
> > being used by comp sci students to build their programs). If that is the
> > case does anyone know the command that will tell me which process is hogging
> > the processor? This is SunOS 5.7 BTW.
> 
> There's top (generic, portable) and then there's proctool, but that hasn't been
> updated in a while but will work on Solaris 7 and is more powerful than top or
> Process Manager
> (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/freeware/SOURCES/PROCTOOL/). IIRC
> Process Manager (which basically is a top workalike from CDE) came bundled
> first with Solaris 8.

With Sol8 (at least) you can also use prstat. Doesn't have all the info
at the top that "top" does, but it will tell you mem and cpu per
process.

-- 
Steve Sandau
IS Technician
TMA Bath, Maine