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Development Tools Console Foundations Processes Processes

Posted by Carlos Vieira
Carlos Vieira
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Terminal Screen is too little to show all the processes using top command

..even when it is maximised. It shows the first 30-40 processes running (there are more than 300 running) and the cursor is a the end of the screen, as it was frozen. I cannot move it, do anything. I can use question mark key though. I am in Mac terminal. Is there any way of showing the rest of the processes? The help "page" seems to not have any info about how to see the rest of the processes.

1 Answer

Alex Koumparos
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Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 Points
Alex Koumparos
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Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 Points

The short answer is that you can't. The idea behind top is that it only shows the top n processes (where n is the number of available lines on your terminal screen), sorted by whichever metric is chosen.

Scrolling seems to be added in newer versions of top (e.g., if you are using Linux). But Apple tends to use very old versions of Unix utilities.

I haven't used it but apparently htop supports scrolling and is available for MacOS.