top problem

minor · 08-01-2001, 11:55 AM

I have a problem when I telnet to linux box and use top utility. And I get the result can get the general stat.. But I can't see detail information(mean which process is idle or running). But I can check it in front of my Linux box! How come? What is the most likely problem on telnet?

jharris · 08-02-2001, 03:33 PM

What telnet client you using? Its most likely that the telnet client ins't displaying the screen properly. The default windows offering is really poor... You might also want to try manually setting the terminal to something like a VT100 to see if that helps. Use

Code:

export TERM=vt100

before you use top.

HTH

Jamie...

minor · 08-02-2001, 08:39 PM

Thanks jharris, but not a vt(windows) problem. It is because I can telnet to another linux box can get a right information from "top". And the screen like this.

"9:07am up 1 day, 17:59, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.16, 0.22
41 processes: 40 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.3% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 99.3% idle
Mem: 63140K av, 61924K used, 1216K free, 9940K shrd, 42312K buff
Swap: 128988K av, 4080K used, 124908K free 3908K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND"

You can see under the PID USER .....COMMAND is NOTHIING. And have any suggestions? It's very interesting!!!

p.s. the linux box is running RH5.2