How do I scroll through my list of processes when I use top on terminal (mac)?

When I use top not all the processes fit on one page. How do I scroll through them?

Eric Brotto

Posted 2011-02-09T16:25:23.737

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Sorry, but this is lacking a bit of sense to me. Shouldn't there be something inherent within top that allows you see all processes which are running? It seems odd that the data would be truncated with no option to see the entire list. – Eric Brotto – 2011-02-13T14:23:16.293

Answers

htop can be compiled for OS X and supports scrolling.

Paused until further notice.

Posted 2011-02-09T16:25:23.737

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1this link is dead. – Eric Brotto – 2011-06-29T23:11:56.497

Found a fantastically easy install for htop. Thanks for the recommendation Dennis! http://themainframe.ca/2011/06/29/install-htop-on-mac-os-x/

– Eric Brotto – 2011-06-29T23:15:07.993

AFAIK top doesn't scroll through pages. Use

ps auxwf

and read

man ps

rems

Posted 2011-02-09T16:25:23.737

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ps: illegal option -- f – Daniel Beck – 2011-02-09T16:32:23.097

The just try ps alone and start adding the other flags. What f does is to show child processes in a tree with their parents. Without you would get processes ordered by number. Again, read man ps – rems – 2011-02-09T16:36:53.480

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/ps.1.html – rems – 2011-02-09T16:39:05.537

That comment is just fyi so you can e.g. edit your response, as the question specifically mentions OS X, and the flag doesn't work there. – Daniel Beck – 2011-02-09T16:47:22.357