[SOLVED] top: select the shown fields from the command-line

TITiAN · 02-08-2010, 07:18 AM

Hi,

as the title suggests, I want to select the fields which the 'top' command shows from the command-line. I can do that in the interactive mode when I press 'F', but I would love to do it via parameters (or with a configuration file, if it doesn't work otherwise).
The fields I'd want to leave out are triggered by these letters: AHIOQTWM
Any ideas how to do it?

Thanks in advance, "Titan"

Background:
I installed the "compa" Gnome applet and want to always see what program currently uses up most ressources. For example, Pidgin sometimes starts using up 100% of 1 CPU and I have to kill it and start it again. I can already filter 1 or 2 programs from the 'top' command using the 'head' and 'tail' commands, but there are too many fields for my purposes by default. I could make a C program that filters those fields I need, but I think there must be a simpler solution.

kbp · 02-08-2010, 05:18 PM

If you set things up how you want then do a 'W', your options should be saved to ~/.toprc

cheers

TITiAN · 02-08-2010, 05:27 PM

OK thanks this is good enough.