psitop Utility for viewing process activity
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activity Python library Python process process activity Python System Information

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Utility for viewing process activity psitop is a Python version of the popular top utility to view process activity such as CPU use, memory use, etc. Requires the Python System Information (PSI) package to be installed and supports all operating systems that PSI supports. Also requires Urwid for curses support.If you have setuptools installed then install using easy_install and it will take care of the dependencies:$ easy_install psitopAlternatively, install psi and urwid then download the psitop tarball, unpack it and install with:$ python setup.py install(you may need special privileges, such as root, depending on your system).This should install a new command-line program "psitop", which can be executed directly:$ psitopSome systems will require root privileges to be able to see all details about all processes. You may need to use:$ sudo psitopor, on Solaris 10 & OpenSolaris:$ pfexec psitopAn example of psitop output looks like:Load Averages: 0.45, 0.51, 0.50 Host: cmmbp PID #TH USER GROUP RSS VSZ %CPU COMMAND 230 36 chris chris 538176 1503240 16.9% Safari16296 1 root wheel 6028 80760 3.0% Python 487 1 root chris 2272 86816 3.0% pmTool 97 5 root wheel 146816 593420 2.9% WindowServer 3562 14 chris chris 24676 505344 2.4% iTerm 486 5 chris chris 13364 472000 1.6% Activity Monitor11050 14 chris chris 120388 640684 1.3% Mail 4624 20 chris chris 71160 569444 1.2% iTunes11390 1 chris chris 21612 461792 1.0% VPNClient 499 9 chris chris 52444 507388 0.8% NetNewsWire 164 4 chris chris 26844 463360 0.3% Dock 1673 6 chris chris 18468 436948 0.1% DashboardClient 1226 1 chris chris 3956 418976 0.1% Memory Monitor Requirements: · Python

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