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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unix Top Command and sorting by CPU Usage Post 302097801 by davemehta on Tuesday 28th of November 2006 04:44:24 PM
Old 11-28-2006
No it's not the default sort order on my system and it does not toggle ascending or decending when hitting "P" again (like one would expect).

Any ideas on how I can see the processes using the largest CPU % with the TOP command? It is crucial that I monitor this right now because my VPS is having issues, I just need to know how to see it! All help is appreciated :-)
 

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gnome-system-monitor(1) 					   User Commands					   gnome-system-monitor(1)

NAME
gnome-system-monitor - view system processes and monitor system usage on your computer SYNOPSIS
gnome-system-monitor [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The System Monitor application displays a list of system processes, and monitors system usage. System Monitor shows which processes are running and how the processes are related. System Monitor also provides detailed information about individual processes, and enables the user to control which processes are running. System Monitor displays how much processor (CPU) capacity the system is using, and how much disk space the system is using on each device. System Monitor displays this information in a graphical interface so that users can see what the system is doing. Users can then use the same graphical interface to modify the behavior of the system. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information. OPERANDS
None. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the System Monitor example% gnome-system-monitor ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of gnome-system-monitor: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor Executable for System Monitor. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-system-monitor | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
System Monitor Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. attributes(5), environ(5), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
You may disable System Monitor at SunRay. Because this application use /proc and keep polling for information, they may adversely effect the performance of the system. But we will not change the default behavior and configuration for SunRay, if it give big impact to SunRay performance, administrators should disable them by using gconfd/APOC. The method to disable Monitor applet: They may use Gnome lockdown features to modify the mandatory settings of the Gnome configuration on their servers to add that applet iden- tifier to the list of disabled applets. you may use the following command (Note: Depending on when this is set, a logout may be required to take effect) %gconftool-2 --type list --list-type string --set /apps/panel/global/disabled_applets [OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet] The method to disable Monitor application: You may just remove the package containing it on their servers, or just change the permissions on the binary: %chmod 700 /bin/gnome-system- monitor. Written by Niall Power, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. Updated by Henry Zhang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006. SunOS 5.11 1 Oct 2003 gnome-system-monitor(1)
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