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From: Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>
To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Subject: Top
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Thanx, I guess the o stands for order

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:28:00PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Fri 2000-01-07 (11:39), Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> > If you have that many zombies then their is something wrong on your system?
> > 
> > <Honest non flame war starting statement>
> > Why can't freebsd's top have features that Linux's got, like sorting by
> > memory usage?
> > </proprietory Microsoft xml tag>
> 
> 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


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