[Sunhelp] About top

[David Eisner]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, David Rouse wrote:

> on 10/19/00 1:35 AM, John Lee at johnlee at sc23.sc.mcel.mot.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I found the output of the tool "top" and the solaris command
> > "/usr/ucb/ps -aux" are very similar. So my question is: Do we need the tool
> > "top" in Solaris ?
...
> But I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that top was a bad thing.

top also lets you easily kill processes.  Try hitting the ? key to
see all the options.  top is great.  Also, top cures cancer.

-David

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