Comments on: Monitoring CPU Usage on your Mac – a better top command http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Sat, 18 May 2013 19:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Watch Disk Use, CPU, and Load Average via Command Line http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-128793 Watch Disk Use, CPU, and Load Average via Command Line Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:16:12 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-128793 [...] on it’s own and it’ll spit out a one-off look at the system stats, or you can just use the top command for similar [...] [...] on it’s own and it’ll spit out a one-off look at the system stats, or you can just use the top command for similar [...]

]]> By: MrPaul http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-99334 MrPaul Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:05:19 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-99334 I wish the OS X (BSD) version of top was more like the one that comes with ubuntu. With that I can press the number "1" and it will display the CPU usage for each CPU/core. You can also press the letter "i" and it will hide all idle processes to clean up the display a bit. I wish the OS X (BSD) version of top was more like the one that comes with ubuntu. With that I can press the number “1″ and it will display the CPU usage for each CPU/core. You can also press the letter “i” and it will hide all idle processes to clean up the display a bit.

]]> By: martin http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97448 martin Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:08:53 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97448 iostat -n0 -w1 This should be significantly less CPU intensive and provide precisely what you're looking for. iostat -n0 -w1

This should be significantly less CPU intensive and provide precisely what you’re looking for.

]]> By: Urs Eppenberger http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97260 Urs Eppenberger Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:27:39 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97260 Sampling every second is not useful for me. Therefore I use top -s 5 -u which cuts the overall CPU usage of top by 80% too. Sampling every second is not useful for me. Therefore I use

top -s 5 -u

which cuts the overall CPU usage of top by 80% too.

]]> By: Bill Eccles http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97060 Bill Eccles Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:49:07 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97060 The segmentation fault seems to occur with the -F, not the -R. Save a few keystrokes and use "-u" which is "an alias equivalent to: -o cpu -O time". Close enough. top -R -u works OK and cuts the CPU usage of top by about 80%. The segmentation fault seems to occur with the -F, not the -R.

Save a few keystrokes and use “-u” which is “an alias equivalent to: -o cpu -O time”. Close enough.

top -R -u

works OK and cuts the CPU usage of top by about 80%.

]]> By: addi http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97058 addi Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:09:11 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97058 A friend tested the command for me on his machine (also snow leopard) ... 'top -F' works for him without segfault. A friend tested the command for me on his machine (also snow leopard) … ‘top -F’ works for him without segfault.

]]> By: Justin Pitts http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97057 Justin Pitts Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:54:50 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97057 s/-R/-F/ sigh. s/-R/-F/

sigh.

]]> By: Justin Pitts http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97056 Justin Pitts Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:54:06 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97056 Segfault here as well, isolated to the use of the -R switch. Snow Leopard thing? Segfault here as well, isolated to the use of the -R switch. Snow Leopard thing?

]]> By: addi http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97055 addi Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:04:42 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97055 ~$ top -F Segmentation fault wtf?? ~$ top -F
Segmentation fault

wtf??

]]> By: DistortedLoop http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/06/monitoring-cpu-usage-on-your-mac-a-better-top-command/#comment-97054 DistortedLoop Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:00:32 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=988#comment-97054 What I don't like about Top is that is that you can never see every item on the list. It only displays as many processes as will fit in the shell window. Is there a way to make it scrollable? What I don’t like about Top is that is that you can never see every item on the list. It only displays as many processes as will fit in the shell window. Is there a way to make it scrollable?

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