From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 2:29:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F113C14E9B for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 126Wci-000L5j-00; Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:28:00 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:28:00 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Alwyn Schoeman Cc: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. Message-ID: <20000107122759.D80425@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <0025685E.00465639.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <20000107113949.A84965@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000107113949.A84965@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-01-07 (11:39), Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > If you have that many zombies then their is something wrong on your system? > > > Why can't freebsd's top have features that Linux's got, like sorting by > memory usage? > top(1) says: -ofield Sort the process display area on the specified field. The field name is the name of the column as seen in the output, but in lower case. Likely val- ues are "cpu", "size", "res", and "time", but may vary on different operating systems. Note that not all operating systems support this option. So, try 'top -o size'. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message