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Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
If you have bash, simply edit your .bashrc or .bash_profile (for differences between them just type 'info bash' in your terminal) and add this line:
Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
Top is NOT a CPU hog. However, when it is polling your system for information, it "activates" and spends CPU power for a very short time and it reports itself since it is active. However, over the course of say 30 secs, the consumption is very small.
Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
I entered the tcshrc version into my .tcshrc. When I went into terminal and typed in ttop, this is what I got:
Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
Did you source your .tcshrc after adding this alias?
Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
IMO, you should not alias already existing commands/binaries.
Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
If you have bash you do as above, but I prefer to put a different name as Rob suggested:
Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
Hello! Just use the -d and -s switches. Usind the -d -s5 switches will reduce the load to ~1% |
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