top command truncates output

[Yong Huang]

Rav,

`ps' command gives you cumultive CPU time since process startup. You want the
delta between two samplings. `top' is the ideal command for this unless you
want to roll your own. By "truncate the output", do you mean you want to see a
more complete command line? Pass -c to top. In fact, I always type `top -c'
while others just type `top'. In order to record the output to a file, run it
in batch mode with -b. To get a longer line size, set COLUMNS environment
variable. In my Oracle-Linux Perfmon
(http://yong321.freeshell.org/computer/Perfmon.html), I use this command:
COLUMNS=132 top -cb

132 is the total line size, not just the command part.

Yong Huang

> Hi,I would agree that I can use ps command to get 
> the cpu utilization of various process.
> But ps command gives me the average cpu utilization.
> I want realtime cput utiliztion of the processes.
> Any other way to get the realtime cpu utilization
> other than using top.Top is truncating the output 
> as I mentioned in the mail.
> Thanks,Rav