top output

[JD Runyan]

Modern top implementations look at the /proc filesystem for it's data.
As commercial UNIX vendors implememnt the /proc filesystem that will be
true there too.  AIX 5 already does this.

-- 
Jason D. Runyan
Mid-Range Systems Administrator
USDA NITC Kansas City

On Jun 17 10:48, Marvin "GodfatherofSoul" Bellamy wrote:
> How dependable is the output from top?  I know that Unix's support 
> shared memory between processes.  It looks like an app I'm running is 
> consuming X amount of memory, but since there are several processes 
> sharing that memory, top says that X time N number of processes is being 
> consumed.