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Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
Authored by: mpiatek on Feb 20, '04 03:50:29PM

I don't think top's reporting of it's own CPU usage is off by much. If you open Activity Monitor and check out the top process (after selecting All Processes in the drop-down), it reports a CPU % for top within a couple of percent from what top says itself is taking.

Mike



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Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
Authored by: jakacmar on Feb 20, '04 06:07:03PM

Another way to check it, open two Terminal windows, run the "new" top in one and regular top in the other. The "new" top will tell you that the regular top is indeed taking A LOT of CPU usage (15-20% on my 800Mhz G4 iMac) compared to the "new" top (hasn't reached 4% once).



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