Please suggest a Mac program similar to "top" on Linux

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 19, 2007, at 22:59, Richard Bronosky wrote:

> The top program on Linux is interactive and extremely useful.  I  
> find the one on the Mac to be quiet painful to use in comparison.
>
> There doesn't seem to be an port of http://htop.sourceforge.net/  
> for the Mac.
>
> Please advise.

If you mean there is no MacPorts port of htop, this is because htop  
does not appear to work on Mac OS X. Their web site does not seem to  
mention Mac OS X compatibility, and running ./configure says:

configure: error: Cannot find /proc/stat. Make sure you have a Linux- 
compatible /proc filesystem mounted. See the file README for help.

And Mac OS X does not have a /proc filesystem.

You could ask the authors of htop if they could make it work on Mac  
OS X, but I suspect it would require significant work on their part.

I don't have very high demands on top, so Mac OS X's top suits me  
fine. There's also Activity Monitor in /Applications/Utilities which  
can be useful and informative.