List of busiest processes screen of the topas monitor

To view the screen that lists the busiest processes, use the -P flag of the topas command.

This screen is similar to the Processes subsection of the overall system statistics screen, but with additional detail. You can sort this screen by any of the columns by moving the cursor to the top of the desired column. The following is an example of the output of the busiest processes screen:

Topas Monitor for host:    aixhost     Interval:   2    Wed Feb  4 11:24:05 2004

                               DATA  TEXT  PAGE               PGFAULTS
USER       PID    PPID PRI NI   RES   RES SPACE    TIME CPU%  I/O  OTH COMMAND
root         1       0  60 20   202     9   202    0:04  0.0  111 1277 init
root       774       0  17 41     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0    2 reaper
root      1032       0  60 41     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0    2 xmgc
root      1290       0  36 41     4     0     4    0:01  0.0    0  530 netm
root      1548       0  37 41    17     0    17    1:24  0.0    0   23 gil
root      1806       0  16 41     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0   12 wlmsched
root      2494       0  60 20     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0    6 rtcmd
root      2676       1  60 20    91    10    91    0:00  0.0   20 6946 cron
root      2940       1  60 20   171    22   171    0:00  0.0   15  129 errdemon
root      3186       0  60 20     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0  125 kbiod
root      3406       1  60 20   139     2   139    1:23  0.0   1542187 syncd
root      3886       0  50 41     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0    2 jfsz
root      4404       0  60 20     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0    2 lvmbb
root      4648       1  60 20    17     1    17    0:00  0.0    1   24 sa_daemon
root      4980       1  60 20    97    13    97    0:00  0.0   37  375 srcmstr
root      5440       1  60 20    15     2    15    0:00  0.0    7   28 shlap
root      5762       1  60 20     4     0     4    0:00  0.0    0    2 random
root      5962    4980  60 20    73    10    73    0:00  0.0   22  242 syslogd
root      6374    4980  60 20    63     2    63    0:00  0.0    2  188 rpc.lockd
root      6458    4980  60 20   117    12   117    0:00  0.0   54  287 portmap