Re: top

[zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz]

Hiya

i can leave it there all day and it still does not come up.  I mostly
telnet into the servers so perhaps telnet is not set up properly.





Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de> on 19/06/2000 11:55:37

To:   Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64
cc:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: top




Hi,

zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz writes:
> hiya's
>
> a simple question... why is it that when i use the 'top' command,
somtimes
> it does not show the list of processes??  does it
> have to be running a special vt100 or something??

how long did you wait for the screen to show?  Top need one sample
period before it displays the first process list related output.  On a
loaded sysetm, this may take a few seconds.

Cheers -- Stephan
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