Is Top "Real-Time"?

[George Toft]

My $0.02: You are picking nits.

Compared to sa & sar, top is almost instant.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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Matt Nesteruk wrote:
> In my post to bmike i stated that "top is not Real-Time".
>  
> Edward Norton has brought to my attention that the Top man page states:
> "The *top* program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system.
> It can display *system* summary information as well as a list  of  *tasks*
> currently being managed by the Linux kernel."
>  
> The reason i say top is not "Real-Time" can bee seen as the program 
> runs.  The clock in the upper right corner is delayed.
>  
> Edward argued that by applying the "-d 1" argument that the clock would 
> update every 1 second.
>  
> This is better, but it is still not "Real-Time".  Page re-generation is 
> biased on a delay clock, not changes in the system tasks.
>  
> Thoughts?
>  
> -Matt
> 
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