psitop 0.3.0a2

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 psitop

Alternatively, 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:

$ psitop

Some systems will require root privileges to be able to see all details about all processes. You may need to use:

$ sudo psitop

or, on Solaris 10 & OpenSolaris:

$ pfexec psitop

An 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% Safari
16296    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 Monitor
11050   14   chris   chris  120388   640684  1.3% Mail
 4624   20   chris   chris   71160   569444  1.2% iTunes
11390    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