My advice: Don't use top, use "prstat" instead. Prstat is so much better than top is, if you know how to use it as the top command gives incorrect metrics (not only in Solaris, but in Linux and BSD too) and uses unnecessarily large amounts of RAM and CPU to do it's job.
If you want to see processes sorted by how much memory they are using just type in: pfexec prstat -s size I thought that in the first release of 2008.05 they should have just made a symlink from top to prstat to make all the Linux migrants (such as myself) happy, but once I got used to using prstat and mdb to get information that I needed, I barely use top at all anymore. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
