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, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > 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 >> uses significantly less CPU than top. > > You can run top just once with: > > top -bn1 > > 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> > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode