Re: Is Top "Real-Time"?

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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