Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Jon Clausen <dsl23212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 19 November 2001 14:08, Clayton Cornell wrote:
> On Monday 19 November 2001 13:58, Eva von Pepel wrote:
> > What is SuSE's equivalent (other than pw) of Windows' Ctrl+Alt+Del
> > listing all running apps? /e
>
> A nice easy one is "top"  (open a terminal and type in top)  Should be
> available on pretty much every flavor on Unix.  Lets you see the
> applications, how much CPU is dedicated to that app etc.  You can't kill an
> offending app though.

Yes you can. (Well I can here...:)
when top is running, hit 'k' and top asks you which process to kill... 
specify PID, hit enter (twice), it dies... assuming, of course, you have the 
privileges to kill it in the first place... you can even specify which signal 
kill should use ;) (like '9' means DIE! NOW! NO SH*T!)

Now since the TOPic (pun intended) is up anyway, there's something I've been 
meaning to ask:

When you're on a machine without X, and you run top, the list of processes is 
often longer than the number of lines on the monitor... anyone know of a way 
to 'scroll' top, so you can see *all* the processes?

I know you can get top to sort by various stuff (e.g. PID, time etc.) but 
that doesn't necessarily show the one you're looking for...

Regards
Jon Clausen