make top colorful
top has a few different color modes you can setup. while top is running, type
z
to toggle color, and to sort by res memory,
shift-m
The cool thing is you can save these choices to a pref file by just hitting
shift-w
after doing the above. Then your top will always open sorted correctly and colorised!
Alternatively you could just put this in .toprc in ~/
RCfile for "top with windows" # shameless braggin' Id:a, Mode_altscr=0, Mode_irixps=1, Delay_time=3.000, Curwin=0 Def fieldscur=AEHIOQTWKNMbcdfgjplrsuvyzX winflags=64825, sortindx=13, maxtasks=0 summclr=1, msgsclr=1, headclr=3, taskclr=1 Job fieldscur=ABcefgjlrstuvyzMKNHIWOPQDX winflags=62777, sortindx=0, maxtasks=0 summclr=6, msgsclr=6, headclr=7, taskclr=6 Mem fieldscur=ANOPQRSTUVbcdefgjlmyzWHIKX winflags=62777, sortindx=13, maxtasks=0 summclr=5, msgsclr=5, headclr=4, taskclr=5 Usr fieldscur=ABDECGfhijlopqrstuvyzMKNWX winflags=62777, sortindx=4, maxtasks=0 summclr=3, msgsclr=3, headclr=2, taskclr=3
But the keystrokes above are a faster way to get it the way you like.
Key reference for setting top up the way YOU like it:
z color mode toggle x column highlight toggle f interactively toggle columns shown < move sort field left > move sort field right H threads shown toggle u show specific user only M sort by res memory W write current settings to default profile (.toprc) Z interactively setup colors
