Getting "top" to display mem/swap in megabytes

kenneho · 11-12-2008, 02:50 AM

Hi.

When I run "top" things such as memory and swap is diplayed in kilobytes. Is there a way to get things displayed in megabytes or gigabytes, similar to adding the "-m" option to "free"?

Regards,
kenneho

anonobomber · 11-12-2008, 02:53 AM

You might want to give 'htop' a shot. It is far more powerful and customizable than regular old top. The bar down at the bottom shows you which function keys to press to configure it to your needs.

kenneho · 11-12-2008, 02:59 AM

Thanks.

I don't seem to find htop in my repo, though. Is not not a standard Linux program?

anonobomber · 11-12-2008, 03:57 AM

It is included in the repositories for most distributions. If you can't get it there try the project home page at http://htop.sourceforge.net/

kenneho · 11-12-2008, 04:44 AM

I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and htop doesn't seem to be available from their repos. Our policy is to avoid installing apps not included in, or supported by, Red Hat. So I guess I'm stuck with top. :/

Let me know if you come up with some way of having top display usage in megabytes.

cornish · 11-12-2008, 05:35 AM

thats also IOTOP but that HTOP looks damn good