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I'd like to do something like top -o cpu but with usernames for each process shown in each row. How can I do this? Thanks!
p.s. I am on Mac OS. I am not sure if the top command is different from other non-BSD.
ceiling cat
Posted 2012-09-08T06:41:50.993
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Note This solution is Mac OS specific. The Linux version is significantly different.
top does not show the username by default just the UID.
You can choose which columns to show with the -stats option.
For example
top -stats pid,user,cpu,command
will show the process ID, the user name, the CPU usage and the command
Processes: 167 total, 2 running, 4 stuck, 161 sleeping, 828 threads 09:55:43
Load Avg: 0.99, 1.31, 1.72 CPU usage: 7.6% user, 12.7% sys, 80.86% idle SharedLibs: 11M resident, 10M data, 0B linkedit. MemRegions: 46953 total, 2034M resident, 55M private, 708M shared.
PhysMem: 1166M wired, 2962M active, 849M inactive, 4977M used, 3213M free. VM: 402G vsize, 1054M framework vsize, 13229803(2) pageins, 816120(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 909991873/986G in, 888624532/347G out. Disks: 35379646/317G read, 10360185/448G written.
PID USER %CPU COMMAND
89849 root 0.0 installd
87409 corti 0.0 cookied
75165 root 8.4 top
75163 corti 0.0 mdworker
You can see the list with man top:
pid Process ID (default).
command
Command name.
cpu CPU usage.
csw Number of context switches.
time Execution time.
threads
alias: th
Number of threads (total/running).
ports alias: prt
Number of Mach ports.
mregion
alias: mreg, reg
Number of memory regions.
rprvt Resident private address space size.
rshrd Resident shared address space size.
rsize Resident memory size.
vsize Total memory size.
vprvt Private address space size.
kprvt Private kernel memory size.
kshrd Shared kernel memory size.
pgrp Process group id.
ppid Parent process id.
state alias: pstate
Process state.
uid User ID.
wq alias: #wq, workqueue
The workqueue total/running.
faults alias: fault
The number of page faults.
cow alias: cow_faults
The copy-on-write faults.
user alias: username Username.
msgsent
Total number of mach messages sent.
msgrecv
Total number of mach messages received.
sysbsd Total BSD syscalls.
sysmach
Total Mach syscalls.
pageins
Total pageins.
Matteo
Posted 2012-09-08T06:41:50.993
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The linux man-page for top here indicates that the output of the command contains
– Bhargav Bhat – 2012-09-08T07:42:56.137UID, perhaps you can use this information to obtain the username as indicated in this forum post. Not sure how easy its would be to automate the entire thing...