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Operating Systems HP-UX Understanding "top" command Post 302676901 by Evan on Wednesday 25th of July 2012 09:20:16 AM
Old 07-25-2012
Understanding "top" command

Hi all,
I need a clarification about the top command in HP-UX.

If I run:
Code:
top -s300

I see the screen refresh every 5 minutes.
From the "man top" I understand that the values displayed every 5 minutes are instantaneous, not average on the previous 5 minutes.
Is this interpretation correct?

In case I want average values "glance" is the correct tool?
Or maybe SAR is better?

Thank you very much!
Evan
 

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uptime(1)							   User Commands							 uptime(1)

NAME
uptime - show how long the system has been up SYNOPSIS
uptime DESCRIPTION
The uptime command prints the current time, the length of time the system has been up, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It is, essentially, the first line of a w(1) command. EXAMPLES
Below is an example of the output uptime provides: example% uptime 10:47am up 27 day(s), 50 mins, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20 ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
w(1), who(1), whodo(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
who -b gives the time the system was last booted. SunOS 5.10 18 Mar 1994 uptime(1)
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