something's eating my ram/processor

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:22:33 +0100
Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:

> thanks guys, how can i get some save-able output from top? I can't cut
> and paste from the output...

Cheap and inelegant way:.
1) Run top in an xterm
2) break with control-c
3) copy and paste the output that remains on the screen.

Here's a sample, just to make sure it works. :)

top - 09:17:05 up 3 days, 19:25,  3 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.11
Tasks:  64 total,   2 running,  62 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  6.4% us,  1.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 90.7% id,  0.6% wa,  1.3% hi,  0.0%
si Mem:    645300k total,   579812k used,    65488k free,   125288k
buffers Swap:  1307872k total,        0k used,  1307872k free,   291660k
cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND      
     19534 tomalek   16   0  3312  840 1676 R  3.9  0.1   0:00.02 top     
[...]       
and so on

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