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Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better

June 24th, 2009 by elizar

Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better… That’s what I searched when I got a ticket from one of the AIX boxes here complaining about CPU being 99% used up.

Of course, you can use vmstat with interval, but for those sysadmin folks who are use to using Top, its still more comfortable using (and seeing) the top output.

Topas is the equivalent of Top for AIX.. it’s better than Top as a matter of fact according to some AIX gurus (and Solaris)

If you persists in using top, You’ll have to build it yourself from the sources at http://www.unixtop.org/ plus probably this fix: 

        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=934590&group_id=72892&atid=536044

Good luck!

 

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  1. Top equivalent for AIX - Topas, Only Better | TuxWire : The Linux Blog Says:

    [...] Original post: Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better [...]

  2. Andy Paton Says:

    Your correct “topas” is an excellent util. But if you want to look at performance then “nmon” it the tool to have. Its now included in AIX 5.3TL09 & 6.1TL02.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nmon

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