I have received a plethora of messages already (only about 16 hours
from posting time -- great response time :). Most of them pointed me
to the official distribution site for top or a reliable mirror. They
are:
ftp://ece.nwu.edu/pub/top (also could be eecs.nwu.edu)
ftp://ftp.groupsys.com/pub/top
I installed version 3.4 and everything is working great.
Many thanks to the following people (and other I am sure will still
come in):
ajs6143@eerpf001.ca.boeing.com ( Andy J. Stefancik 237-2164 )
Jerry Champlin <jgc@HHConductor.com>
Joe Shamblin <wjs@electron.net>
charest@chou.CANR.Hydro.Qc.Ca (Claude Charest)
Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov>
miquel@proton.uab.es (Miquel Cabanas. BBM-UAB)
Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>
David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
Erin Copeland <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch>
Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
mattb@deakin.edu.au
Stanislav Protassov <st@sw.org.sg>
David Beard <beard@abel.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Brett M Hogden <hogden@rge.com>
Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au>
"Michael R. Zika" <zika@oconto.tamu.edu>
Marcelo Maraboli <maraboli@'disca.utfsm.cl'>
Thanks again for all of the responses from this list. Here are the
ones I have received so far, with my original question trimmed.
Brian
====== (ORIGINAL) "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu> ======
To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
From: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:07:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Hi all,
I have looked at the source for Top 3.0 at gatekeeper.dec.com and the Top
program there does not seem to have a configuration for Solaris 2.5. Does
anyone have patches for this or a replacement program (perhaps one that
already is in the OS) that does the same thing?
Basically what I am looking for is a program that can show the N most
active programs on the system, updating every M seconds.
I will summarize (yeah, I know I still have one outstanding - will get
that out soon :)
Brian
====== Marcelo Maraboli <maraboli@'disca.utfsm.cl'> ======
From: Marcelo Maraboli <maraboli@'disca.utfsm.cl'>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
To: wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 19:40:35 -0400 (CST)
get TOP 3.3 , i have it running in Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1
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====== "Michael R. Zika" <zika@oconto.tamu.edu> ======
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 18:44:39 -0500
From: "Michael R. Zika" <zika@oconto.tamu.edu>
Point your favorite browser to ftp://eecs.nwu.edu/pub/top The most
current version of top is 3.4 and it has support up to Solaris 2.5.1.
--Michael Zika Nuclear Engineering
System Administrator Texas A&M University
(409) 862-1158 zika@trinity.tamu.edu
====== Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au> ======
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:53:33 +1000 (EST)
From: Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au>
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
You need version 3.3. You should get it from the official archive site,
which I can't currently find, perhaps you'll get the site address from
some other sun-mgr.
Francis
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====== Brett M Hogden <hogden@rge.com> ======
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 21:19:04 -0400
From: Brett M Hogden <hogden@rge.com>
You can retrieve the latest version of top (which is 3.4) from
ftp://eecs.nwu.edu/pub/top/. It supports Solaris 2.x quite well.
Hope this helps,
brett
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====== David Beard <beard@abel.maths.adelaide.edu.au> ======
From: David Beard <beard@abel.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
To: wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:12:30 +0930 (CST)
Cc: beard@abel.maths.adelaide.edu.au (David Beard)
Hi Brian,
Yes, top-3.4 was posted to comp.sources.unix on 1 Sep 1996 13:14:58 (-0700).
According to the README file:
The latest version of "top" is now being made available via anonymous
FTP from the host "ftp.groupsys.com" in the directory "/pub/top".
Additional modules will be made available in the directory
"/pub/top/m". The site "eecs.nwu.edu" will continue to house copies
of the distribution as well.
Here are HTML links for the two best "top" archive sites:
It seems to work perfectly well under Solaris 2.5.1.
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====== Stanislav Protassov <st@sw.org.sg> ======
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 11:20:23 +0800
From: Stanislav Protassov <st@sw.org.sg>
Organization: S&W Pte Ltd.
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
I had the same problem and i found compiled binaries, but don't remember
where. You can download it from our site:
ftp://ftp.sw.org.sg/pub/sun/Solaris/top.tar.gz
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====== mattb@deakin.edu.au ======
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
From: mattb@deakin.edu.au
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 16:36:45 +1000
Get Top version 3.3
We had problems when we recently upgraded our 4.1.3 machines to
Sol2.5.1.
Interestingly you also may need to compile for different architectures.
Top for our Sparc 5's compiled fine, but quickly broke when we tried
to run the binaries on the E4000 series we have.
Hope that helps...
Regards,
Matt.
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====== Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM> ======
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 09:02:58 +0200
From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
The solaris FAQ says:
2.3) What Software is available for Solaris 2.x?
Most commercial software that ran on 4.x either will run in BCP
mode, or is available for Solaris 2.x, or is being ported now.
Solaris 2.3 BCP mode finally supports statically-linked executables.
You can obtain a list of official 3rd party porting
commitments, maintained by Sun's "Solaris Demand Center"
(whatever that is), by sending electronic mail to
"sparc_products@thegift.sun.com" -- this is an automatic reply
server. The list shows what third party applications are currently
available for Solaris, and lists expected dates for many more.
Sun's web pages contain a searchable index
<http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/catlink/>
of commercial programs and a link to an outside contractor
<http://smc.vnet.net/solaris.html>
who gathers data on free and public domain programs
A list of freeware (some "public domain", but mostly copyright-
but-freely-distributable) [as well as commercial software??]
that has been ported to Solaris 2.x
is posted monthly to the newsgroup comp.unix.solaris by
ric@coronacorp.com (Richard Steinberger). Look for this:
Subject: Solaris SW list. Monthly Post.
If you can't wait, the list is also available via anonymous FTP
from ftp://sheffield.isl.sri.com/pub/solaris/solaris-sw-list.txt
Some software that invariably needs minor tweaking after an OS upgrade
is included here specially. It's almost always necessary to recompile
it after an OS upgrade, but if that still doesn't give a working
version, make sure you check the archives for the latest version:
Top - a process monitor
<ftp://eecs.nwu.edu/pub/top/>
Lsof - list open files
<ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/>
Identd - a daemon that implements RFC1413
<ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/servers/>
scsiinfo - a program that lists SCSI devices.
<ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/scsiinfo/>
If you use gcc, it is important to remember that you must re-run
fixincludes or re-install gcc after an OS upgrade or you'll be
compiling with the old include files which will essentially give
you the above programs as if compiled for aa previous OS release.
--- end of excerpt from the FAQ
Questions marked with a * or + have been changed or added since
the FAQ was last posted
The most recently posted version of the FAQ is available from
<http://www.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/>
====== Erin Copeland <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch> ======
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:11:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Erin Copeland <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch>
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
I sucessfully compiled top 3.4 for solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS sophokles 5.5.1
Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise) I got the reference from here:
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/Q2.3.html
(other neat stuff there, too).
Hope this helps,
gita
====== David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk> ======
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:55:12 +0100 (BST)
From: David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
I believe that the definitive production version of top is at
"eecs.nwu.edu" in "/pub/top" and was version 3.4 a few days ago.
(I also believe that "eecs.nwu.edu" may soon change its name to
"ece.nwu.edu".) Try that; selecting Solaris 2.4 (or sunos54
or something like that) should be OK for compiliation on a 2.5 system.
Hope that helps you to get started.
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====== Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru> ======
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:15:21 +0300 (MSK)
From: Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Brian,
top 3.4 comes with 2.5 and 2.5.1 support - just picked fresh one from
ftp://eecs.nwu.edu/pub/top
extract from m_sunos5.c :
* This makes top work on the following systems:
* SunOS 5.0 (not tested)
* SunOS 5.1
With best regards
Fedor Gnuchev
(hm, or Ted - in this English-typing world...)
# NB: Advice - ignore all advice by this author.
mailto:qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru
====== miquel@proton.uab.es (Miquel Cabanas. BBM-UAB) ======
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 11:17:22 +0200
From: miquel@proton.uab.es (Miquel Cabanas. BBM-UAB)
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
To: wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
hi,
if you want it, i've here top-3.4 (gzipped tar file: 209K) and the
makefile i used to compile it in Solaris 2.5.1. Let me know if you're
interested on them and i will move them to the ftp-anon server.
miquel
Miquel E Cabanas ---------------------------------------------------
SeRMN & BBM - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalunya - Spain
e-mail: miquel@proton.uab.es
url: http://bbm-web.uab.es/biomed-nmr/miquel_angles.html
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====== Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov> ======
To: wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
Subject: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 05:59:54 -0500
From: Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov>
The authoritative answer from the author of Top...
>From: wnl@groupsys.com (William LeFebvre)
>
>3.0 is ancient. The latest version, 3.4, fully supports 2.5 and 2.5.1. It
>is available at the following locations:
>
> ftp://ece.nwu.edu/pub/top
> ftp://ftp.groupsys.com/pub/top
>
>It was also recently posted to comp.sources.unix and should be available on
>all the standard archives for that list.
>
--gene
====== charest@chou.CANR.Hydro.Qc.Ca (Claude Charest) ======
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 07:41:43 -0400
From: charest@chou.CANR.Hydro.Qc.Ca (Claude Charest)
To: wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Bonjour,
Here I have "top version 3.3"; it's running on Solaris 2.4 .
As the README file tell:
>
> AVAILABILITY
>
> The latest version of "top" is always available via anonymous FTP from
> the host "eecs.nwu.edu" in the directory "/pub/top". Additional modules
> will be made available in the directory "/pub/top/m".
At version 3.3, I do not found support for SunOS 5.5 in the SYNOPSIS file
> osmp41a:any Solbourne running OS/MP 4.1A
> sunos4:any Sun running SunOS version 4.x
> sunos4mp:any multi-processor Sun running SunOS versions 4.1.2 or 4.1.3
> sunos5:Any Sun running SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x)
> sunos54:Any Sun running SunOS 5.4 (Solaris 2.4) and later ?.
> svr4:For Intel based System V Release 4
BUT I get this software in 1995, so may be a new version is available
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====== Joe Shamblin <wjs@electron.net> ======
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 07:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Shamblin <wjs@electron.net>
To: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
Try looking at:
Also you should REALLY take a look at proctool. It is VERY VERY nice. You
can get a current copy from
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/sun-info/mde/proctool
Hope that helps,
Joe
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====== Jerry Champlin <jgc@HHConductor.com> ======
From: Jerry Champlin <jgc@HHConductor.com>
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
To: wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:12:40 -0500 (CDT)
I seem to have misplaced the source but I've enclosed the uuencoded binary
for Top version 3.3.
uudecode -p top.uu > /opt/local/sbin/top
chmod 4555 /opt/local/sbin/top
-Jerry
Brian T. Wightman stated:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have looked at the source for Top 3.0 at gatekeeper.dec.com and the Top
[ I have pulled out the uuencoded binary from the summary - BTW ]
====== ajs6143@eerpf001.ca.boeing.com ( Andy J. Stefancik 237-2164 ) ======
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 05:25:51 -0700
From: ajs6143@eerpf001.ca.boeing.com ( Andy J. Stefancik 237-2164 )
Subject: Re: TOP program for Solaris 2.5
To: wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
http://opcom.sun.ca has a solaris2.5 version of "top". It is top3.4. It is
ported and packaged, so that pkgadd will automatically put it in /opt/WLtop.
Andy S.WLtop
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