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

[Richard Bronosky]

On Linux you get http://linux.die.net/man/1/top which is interactive.  It's
more of a process manager than a process viewer.  You can launch it once and
then turn columns on and off, change the sort, change the statistic method,
renice processes, kill process, etc. all without having to:
1. Quit top.
2. Check man top to see what the commandline options are for the next view
you want to see.
3. Relaunch top with the new options.
4. Repeat 1-3 until you've figured out what you want to know.

I just heard from one of my friends who is a kernel developer at Yahoo!.  He
tells me that top on FreeBSD can send signals and change sorting too.  I'll
have to look into it.

On 8/20/07, paul beard <paulbeard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/19/07, Richard Bronosky <BrunosJunk at bronosky.com> 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.
> >
>
> what doesn't top on OS X do?
> --
> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
> < paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>
>



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