This just appeared yesterday too: CLI Magic: Getting on top of things - http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/04/0430254
Cheers, Lindsay On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:18:51 +1100 Elliott-Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone direct me to a site that explains the running processes shown > by the command 'top'? > > I've had a bit of a look around, but the frequency of the occurance of > the term means that I've an excessive number of non-useful results shown > (and I'm not able to work out how to set more stringent parameter) > > As I'm not that familiar with what is shown in the results shown in the > terminal window, I'm not able to work out if I have processes running > that shouldn't be, or that can be stopped without crashing my machine. > > Thanks, > > Patrick > -- http://asymmetrics.net/~auxesis/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
