Ah .. I think I remember -- we were running this at the z/VM console on a Linux guest... so wanted to limit the output so it didn't wrap and mess up the displayed tasks..
Scott Rohling On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Just ensure 80 amount of characters are displayed on each line .. you can > certainly leave it out -- it's been too long for me to remember why that > was stuck in :( I'm not sure now what the rationale was.. > > Scott Rohling > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < > baue...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > >> Can somebody explain to me what the 'cut' step is suppose to do? I left it >> out and the results appear to be the same. >> >> Bobby Bauer >> Center for Information Technology >> National Institutes of Health >> Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 >> 301-594-7474 >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard J Moore [mailto:richardj_mo...@uk.ibm.com] >> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:57 PM >> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Subject: Re: Poor man's top >> >> very good. nice suggestion. but I needed to do: >> >> watch -n 10 -d 'ps aux --sort -%cpu | cut -c1- | head -20' >> >> Richard >> >> >> >> >> From: Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com> >> To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu >> Date: 21/07/2011 17:43 >> Subject: Poor man's top >> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu> >> >> >> >> I found this buried in some notes.. thought others might enjoy it. >> Much >> less overhead then top.. : >> >> watch -n 10 -d 'ps aux --sort -%cpu | cut -c1-0 | head -20' >> >> Scott Rohling >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
