Memory and CPU Usage Script

[Kay C Lan]

Thanks Richard, I strangely feel chuffed about the fact that I'm
reinventing a wheel already built by the legendary Man himself. I
might have to look into a few more of the top options: -bn1 didn't
work on my 10.9.3 but clearly there must be an OS X equivalent.

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Kay C Lan wrote:
>
>> I wanted to know what was using my memory and CPU and using top
>> was always going to place itself in the list.  This is understandable
>> as top is active whilst the id, ps, and vm_stat are all static, but I
>> notice that even Activity Monitor with all it's bells and whistles
>> uses significantly less CPU than top.
>
> You can run top just once with:
>
> top -bn1
>
> But even more fun, you can take a trip back to 1997 to read Scott Raney's
> article in Linux Journal about using LiveCode (back then called "MetaCard")
> to build a GUI for top:
> <http://porky.linuxjournal.com:8080/LJ/043/2110.html>
>
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