Activity monitor vs. unix 'top'?

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Activity monitor vs. unix 'top'?

I was wondering how come there are so many more processes running when using the Unix 'top' command, as compared to using the activity monitor? Activity monitor only shows a few things when top shows pages and pages.

MacBook Pro 1.83, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 5, 2007 8:20 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 5, 2007 8:23 PM in response to Andre Calaminus

In "Activity Monitor", at the top-right next to the search field there's a pull-down menu. Select "All Processes", and it should list all processes that are running on your computer just as "top" does.

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Answer 2

lethal

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Dec 5, 2007 8:26 PM in response to Andre Calaminus

You can see all processes with Activity monitor but by default it only shows your (user) processes.

There s a selection box on the top right - switch it to say "All processes"

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Answer 3

Dec 5, 2007 9:42 PM in response to Andre Calaminus

thank you, dont know how i missed it 🙂

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