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