Tiptop


Tiptop is a performance monitoring tool for Linux.  It provides a
dynamic real-time view of the tasks running in the system. tiptop is
very similar to the top utility, but most of the information displayed
comes from hardware counters.


* Installation
Tiptop is a single executable. It can be launched from any place in
the filesystem. Documentation is in the man page tiptop.1.
For installation instructions, check file INSTALL.


* Requirements
Linux 2.6.31+, /proc filesystem. For live-mode, the ncurses library is
needed. libxml2 is required to parse the configuration file.


* Common command lines:

tiptop --help

tiptop
  no arg, uses default

tiptop -b
  batch mode

tiptop -d 10
  refresh every 10 seconds

tiptop -i
  also show idle processes (see --cpu-min to define the threshold)

tiptop -H
  also show threads

tiptop -W path
  specify the location of the configuration file