From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 16:48: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from static.unixfreak.org (static.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30EC37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:48:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by static.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33CE61F34; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:48:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: ctrl key to show current system operation? In-Reply-To: <20001031190440.A94119@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> "from j mckitrick at Oct 31, 2000 07:04:41 pm" To: j mckitrick Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:48:00 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dima Dorfman Reply-To: dima@unixfreak.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20001101004800.33CE61F34@static.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I seem to recall some key that when combined with control (I believe) would > show a single line with the current system operation. This way, if the > system seemed hung, you could hit this key and see that actually the system > was in the middle of an I/O operation. It is sort of like top, only one > line, and only shows what the CPU is busy doing. I have been looking all > over for this and I can't find it. I don't even know where to start looking > . Does anyone know what I am talking about here ? Control+T? Sample output: load: 0.10 cmd: gzip 15818 [running] 0.46u 0.00s 0% 384k Hope this helps -- Dima Dorfman Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key. If the government wants us to behave, they should set a better example! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message