Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
paul beard wrote: BTW, if you haven't explored the full power of top, you really should play with it and read the documentation.  It's so much more than a process viewer. I worked with the author of top (as he is credited on the FreeBSD port) for a while and I didn't think he had left

Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-21 Thread David Corking
On 8/21/07, paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/07, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant! I had tried top -L and that didn't seem to do anything useful. This is what I was looking for. Call off the hounds! BTW, if you haven't explored the full power of top,

Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 21, 2007, at 08:59, David Corking wrote: On 8/21/07, paul beard wrote: I worked with the author of top (as he is credited on the FreeBSD port) for a while and I didn't think he had left anything out: glad you found time to Read The Fine Manual. Not quite - the manual was no help

Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-20 Thread N_Ox
Le 20 août 07 à 14:38, Richard Bronosky a écrit : Thanks for going through the effort to try it out! I figured that a proc monitor was doing some kernel leve stuff and wouldn't compile on a foreign kernel, so I didn't even try. By port... foe the Mac I meant simply port, not MacPort. I

Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-20 Thread Richard Bronosky
On Linux you get http://linux.die.net/man/1/top which is interactive. It's more of a process manager than a process viewer. You can launch it once and then turn columns on and off, change the sort, change the statistic method, renice processes, kill process, etc. all without having to: 1. Quit

Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:01 AM, N_Ox wrote: Maybe we could use ProcFS with MacFuse, and then install htop. That would be an almost heroic exercise in impedance matching. Still, I wish you luck with that. :) - Jordan ___ macports-users mailing

Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-20 Thread Richard Bronosky
Brilliant! I had tried top -L and that didn't seem to do anything useful. This is what I was looking for. Call off the hounds! BTW, if you haven't explored the full power of top, you really should play with it and read the documentation. It's so much more than a process viewer. On 8/20/07,

Re: Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-20 Thread paul beard
On 8/20/07, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant! I had tried top -L and that didn't seem to do anything useful. This is what I was looking for. Call off the hounds! BTW, if you haven't explored the full power of top, you really should play with it and read the

Please suggest a Mac program similar to top on Linux

2007-08-19 Thread Richard Bronosky
The top program on Linux is interactive and extremely useful. I find the one on the Mac to be quiet painful to use in comparison. There doesn't seem to be an port of http://htop.sourceforge.net/ for the Mac. Please advise. -- .!# RichardBronosky #!.