Display separate cpu states in top

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Jan 2 10:48:08 PST 2008


On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:31, David Liontooth wrote:

> Dual-core CPUs are now commonplace on Macs. Can top display the  
> load on each core?
>
> In Linux, the top from procps has for a while now included this  
> option:
>
> <1> :Toggle_Single/Separate_Cpu_States  --  On/Off
>              This command affects how the 't' command's Cpu States  
> portion is shown.  Although this toggle exists primarily to serve   
> massively-parallel
>              SMP machines, it is not restricted to solely SMP  
> environments.
>
>              When you see 'Cpu(s):' in the summary area, the '1'  
> toggle is On and all cpu information is gathered in a single line.   
> Otherwise, each cpu
>              is displayed separately as: 'Cpu0, Cpu1, ...'
>
> Any way to get this functionality in OSX?

A quick glance at the top manpage doesn't show me any way to do this.  
And a quick look through "port search top" doesn't show me any  
alternate versions of top available.




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