Re: Is Top "Real-Time"?

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Author: Brock
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To: nathan, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Is Top "Real-Time"?
On 2006.12.12.08.34, Nathan England wrote:
| On Monday 11 December 2006 20:57, Dan Lund wrote:
| > sa & sar are totally different statistic generators.
| > They can't be compared to top any more than mrtg can be compared to
| > ifconfig. The jist is that real time means that it displays exactly what is
| > going on in the kernel process list at every given change. I don't
| > think anything can ever do that and still able to be comprehended in a
| > decent amount of time.
|
| exactley, if you run top -d .0 it's about as close to real time as it will
| ever be, and it's almost incomprehensible. Atleast on my machine, you can't
| tell what's happening because it's all moving so fast...
|
| nathan


dang... top -d .0 is FUN!

--Brock

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