On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:26:32 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) uttered:
>
> Isn't root-tail some feature of reiserfs? Or am I missing sometning
> here?
No, it's a package which displays the contents of a file on your root
window, kinda cool.
> According to 'man top' it seems -b just sends lines of top through to
> stdout until a limit has been reached or until the process is killed.
Like I say, when I run top -b > file, it shows me all running processes,
and continues to do so until I kill it, hence the rather rapid growth
of the size of the file I created, LOL!
Here is the content of the file, at least one entry of it, the whole
thing is several hundred lines since top refreshes every few seconds by
default.
top - 17:44:58 up 2 days, 18:04, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04,
0.05 Tasks: 70 total, 1 running, 69 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0
zombie Cpu(s): 9.9% user, 3.0% system, 0.1% nice, 87.0% idle
Mem: 384600k total, 341612k used, 42988k free, 17652k buffers
Swap: 811240k total, 10916k used, 800324k free, 242096k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ Command
7224
joehill 17 0 880 880 688 R 1.9 0.2 0:00.05 top
1 root
4 0 104 76 56 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.78 init
2 root
10 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.94 keventd
3 root 9
0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kapmd
4 root 19 19
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.25 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 9 0 0
0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:08.09 kswapd
6 root 9 0 0 0
0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 bdflush
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 S
0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kupdated
8 root -1 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0
0.0 0:00.00 mdrecoveryd
12 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.71 kjournald
86 root 9 0 876 728 664 S 0.0 0.2
0:00.48 devfsd
175 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.01 khubd
315 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:10.10 kjournald
636 root 8 0 84 52 36 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.01 ifplugd
708 root 8 0 648 480 404 S 0.0 0.1
0:00.01 dhclient
768 rpc 9 0 68 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 portmap
782 root 9 0 228 180 124 S 0.0 0.0
0:03.65 syslogd
790 root 9 0 996 164 152 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.19 klogd
833 rpcuser 9 0 88 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 rpc.statd
925 xfs 9 0 4480 2736 2056 S 0.0 0.7
0:01.99 xfs
963 daemon 9 0 124 104 100 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 atd
984 root 9 0 200 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 saslauthd
994 root 9 0 200 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 saslauthd
995 root 9 0 200 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 saslauthd
996 root 9 0 200 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 saslauthd
998 root 9 0 200 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 saslauthd
1016 daemon 9 0 200 172 88 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.77 tmdns
1043 root 9 0 148 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.01 xinetd
1072 root 9 0 1032 440 304 S 0.0 0.1
0:00.13 cupsd
1179 root 9 0 144 116 92 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.19 rwhod
1189 root 9 0 264 244 212 S 0.0 0.1
0:00.01 rwhod
1275 root 8 0 408 188 128 S 0.0 0.0
0:02.07 master
1293 postfix 9 0 676 468 384 S 0.0 0.1
0:00.88 nqmgr
1320 root 8 0 156 120 80 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.02 crond
1337 root 8 0 3912 744 448 S 0.0 0.2
0:00.03 miniserv.pl
1361 root 8 0 468 408 332 S 0.0 0.1
0:00.02 lisa
1471 root 9 0 44 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 mingetty
1472 root 9 0 44 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 mingetty
1473 root 9 0 44 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 mingetty
1474 root 9 0 44 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 mingetty
1475 root 9 0 44 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.01 mingetty
18713 joehill 9 0 272 4 4 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.10 ssh
23343 root 9 0 232 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.04 login
23387 joehill 9 0 988 696 564 S 0.0 0.2
0:00.08 bash
4661 joehill 9 0 1524 1524 1220 S 0.0 0.4
0:00.37 fetchmail
5971 joehill 9 0 5552 5552 1948 S 0.0 1.4
0:00.64 gconfd-2
6725 postfix 9 0 1444 1444 1180 S 0.0 0.4
0:00.01 pickup
7039 joehill 9 0 1200 1200 936 S 0.0 0.3
0:00.01 startx
7050 joehill 9 0 624 624 548 S 0.0 0.2
0:00.00 xinit
7051 root 12 0 283m 27m 4224 S 0.0 7.3
0:08.54 X
7056 joehill 8 0 1160 1160 904 S 0.0 0.3
0:00.02 sh
7060 joehill 9 0 8656 8656 3468 S 0.0 2.3
0:01.51 idesk
7061 joehill 9 0 6796 6796 4616 S 0.0 1.8
0:00.44 gkrellm
7062 joehill 9 0 2012 2012 1652 S 0.0 0.5
0:00.16 xscreensaver
7063 joehill 9 0 1340 1340 1128 S 0.0 0.3
0:00.03 wmsmixer
7064 joehill 9 0 1032 1032 884 S 0.0 0.3
0:00.00 wmclockmon
7066 joehill 9 0 2204 2204 1688 S 0.0 0.6
0:00.15 pekwm
7074 joehill 8 0 1144 1144 892 S 0.0 0.3
0:00.02 start
7076 joehill 9 0 5572 5572 3628 S 0.0 1.4
0:00.45 sylpheed
7077 joehill 9 0 26164 25m 17m S 0.0 6.8
0:02.99 galeon-bin
7120 joehill 9 0 2452 2452 1884 S 0.0 0.6
0:00.16 bonobo-activati
7122 joehill 9 0 26164 25m 17m S 0.0 6.8
0:00.00 galeon-bin
7123 joehill 9 0 26164 25m 17m S 0.0 6.8
0:00.00 galeon-bin
7124 joehill 9 0 26164 25m 17m S 0.0 6.8
0:00.00 galeon-bin
7125 joehill 9 0 26164 25m 17m S 0.0 6.8
0:00.00 galeon-bin
7127 joehill 9 0 26164 25m 17m S 0.0 6.8
0:00.00 galeon-bin
7173 postfix 9 0 1432 1432 1168 S 0.0 0.4
0:00.01 proxymap
7175 postfix 9 0 1448 1448 1176 S 0.0 0.4
0:00.02 trivial-rewrite
7183 joehill 9 0 3636 3636 2272 S 0.0 0.9
0:00.15 Eterm
7184 joehill 13 0 1564 1564 1092 S 0.0 0.4
0:00.04 bash
but on the root window, only a few of them appear, no root processes,
and only a few of my user processes.
It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle surrounded by an enigma... ;-)
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