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

N_Ox n.oxyde at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 07:01:02 PDT 2007


Le 20 août 07 à 14:38, Richard Bronosky a écrit :

> Thanks for going through the effort to try it out!  I figured that  
> a proc monitor was doing some kernel leve stuff and wouldn't  
> compile on a foreign kernel, so I didn't even try.  By "port... foe  
> the Mac" I meant simply port, not MacPort.
>
> I live two totally isolated lives on my Mac.  In my professional  
> life I do everything from a shell.  Give me iTerm, ssh, scp, vim,  
> (Gnu) screen, and mysql, and I'm happy.  In my personal life I like  
> the ooey GUI benefits of the Mac, for photo and video management, etc.
>
> So, for anyone else out there, I'm still looking for a good "top" app.
>
> On 8/20/07, Ryan Schmidt < ryandesign at macports.org> wrote: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.
>

Maybe we could use ProcFS with MacFuse, and then install htop.

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