Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Thursday, June 12, 2014, 3:45:55 PM, you wrote: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/procfs/ That's a dead link, and even osxbook.com just returns Hello. I treasure my hardcopy of that book, and apparently there's an updated version in the works. Serious geeky wonderfulness for

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/6/2014, 7:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But even more fun, you can take a trip back to 1997 to read Scott Raney's article in Linux Journal about using LiveCode (back then called MetaCard) to build a GUI for top: http://porky.linuxjournal.com:8080/LJ/043/2110.html This looked pretty cool

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/6/2014, 7:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But even more fun, you can take a trip back to 1997 to read Scott Raney's article in Linux Journal about using LiveCode (back then called MetaCard) to build a GUI for top: http://porky.linuxjournal.com:8080/LJ/043/2110.html

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/2014, 5:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Handy as it is, not all *nixes support it - this site explains more, with some suggestions of OS X alternatives to some /proc info: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/procfs/ Thanks, but this would be way more work than the simple example I

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
Kay, Thanks for that. It may come in handy some time. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Jun 6, 2014, at 4:38 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: For the first time, on OS X, I ran out of memory. Whilst Activity Monitor is good, it doesn’t really give you a way to

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail@... writes: at the bottom you’ll find a script that will output* some nice tab formatted memory and CPU info: Nice, but top didn't give you what you were looking for? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Nice, but top didn't give you what you were looking for? I noticed in my search that people reported top as being quite CPU intensive and in my own tests it went to No2, just below LC when I was running my stacks; so a

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: I wanted to know what was using my memory and CPU and using top was always going to place itself in the list. This is understandable as top is active whilst the id, ps, and vm_stat are all static, but I notice that even Activity Monitor with all it's bells and whistles

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks Richard, I strangely feel chuffed about the fact that I'm reinventing a wheel already built by the legendary Man himself. I might have to look into a few more of the top options: -bn1 didn't work on my 10.9.3 but clearly there must be an OS X equivalent. On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:33 AM,

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: Thanks Richard, I strangely feel chuffed about the fact that I'm reinventing a wheel already built by the legendary Man himself. Au contraire: I consider it one of those great GMTA moments - at least you're in good company. :) Besides, your layout bested top's - not bad.

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Friday, June 6, 2014, 8:25:19 PM, you wrote: OS X ships with some surprisingly old stuff homebrew -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Kay- Friday, June 6, 2014, 5:19:10 PM, you wrote: I noticed in my search that people reported top as being quite CPU intensive and in my own tests it went to No2, just below LC when I was running my stacks; so a bit chicken and egg, I wanted to know what was using my memory and CPU and using

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Friday, June 6, 2014, 8:25:19 PM, you wrote: OS X ships with some surprisingly old stuff homebrew Homebrew is a great solution for people like you and me, but for most Mac customers Apple hasn't been forthcoming about how outdated and vulnerable many system