Here's a thing I didn't know about 'top', it can save its view settings. In order not to permanently affect it, fiddle with HOME..Now use 'f' to get the display list, use the hints to get "SWAP" into the first position, enabled and set it as the sort item (via arrow keys, space and 's' key from hints). This persists for batch mode but you must be back at the main screen to save the settings and its SHIFT-W rather than 'W', the latter yields a cryptic popup error I've already forgotten.I found a bug in rpi bookworm though in that something is not respecting environmental variable "COLUMNS". Seems this workaround suffices..I wrote a script to make this easier. It runs the above single batch iteration and sinks any output which isn't paging. Dunno what half those columns mean btw - just that they might be useful..Don't take any meaning from the above regards SWAP though: pi24 is busy being hammered compiling something which takes days!
I can post the script but it will require something from github (temporary file/folder shell script code).
Code:
foo@pi24:/wrk $ HOME=/tmp topCode:
foo@pi24:/wrk $ HOME=/tmp top -n 1 -bCode:
foo@pi24:~ $ COLUMNS=$COLUMNS HOME=/tmp top -n 1 -b | headtop - 03:04:45 up 10:19, 5 users, load average: 2.95, 2.69, 2.85Tasks: 267 total, 4 running, 263 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie%Cpu(s): 40.0 us, 60.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 8059.2 total, 1167.0 free, 6369.6 used, 6166.0 buff/cache MiB Swap: 16384.0 total, 15607.1 free, 776.9 used. 1689.6 avail Mem SWAP PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR %CPU %MEM TIME+ nTH nMaj nMin nDRT OOMa OOMs COMMAND 63488 1579 nx 20 0 2368288 56192 14944 0.0 0.7 0:49.95 31 773 84k 0 0 669 nxserver.bin 26112 1120 root 20 0 536048 44176 27712 0.0 0.5 1:54.71 4 814 15k 0 0 668 Xorg 22528 1711 foo 0 -20 2349200 66944 20896 0.0 0.8 0:53.82 20 1383 36k 0 0 668 nxnode.binCode:
foo@pi24:~ $ sys-topswap top - 03:05:50 up 10:20, 5 users, load average: 3.23, 2.85, 2.90Tasks: 272 total, 4 running, 268 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie%Cpu(s):100.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 8059.2 total, 1139.7 free, 6427.6 used, 6179.2 buff/cache MiB Swap: 16384.0 total, 15608.1 free, 775.9 used. 1631.6 avail Mem SWAP PID PPID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ nTH nMaj nMin nDRT OOMa OOMs vMj vMn USED COMMAND 63488 1579 1 nx 20 0 2368416 56192 14944 S 0.0 0.7 0:50.05 31 775 84k 0 0 669 0 0 119680 nxserver.bin 26112 1120 1020 root 20 0 536048 44176 27712 S 0.0 0.5 1:54.71 4 814 15k 0 0 668 0 0 70288 Xorg 22528 1711 1710 foo 0 -20 2349200 66944 20896 S 0.0 0.8 0:53.83 20 1383 36k 0 0 668 0 0 89472 nxnode.bin 19456 1268 1156 foo 20 0 1175152 30624 20576 S 0.0 0.4 0:07.01 7 386 5427 0 0 668 0 0 50080 lxpanel 14336 1304 1274 foo 20 0 325984 12496 10448 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.07 2 121 2061 0 0 667 0 0 26832 gtk-nop 13248 1269 1156 foo 20 0 980784 68368 39408 S 0.0 0.8 0:23.70 6 1429 11k 0 0 668 0 0 81616 pcmanfm 9728 1154 1136 foo 9 -11 702128 14256 10448 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.59 8 510 2271 0 200 800 0 0 23984 wireplumber 4608 1740 1711 foo 20 0 1389104 21088 16480 S 0.0 0.3 0:03.44 14 435 3232 0 0 667 0 0 25696 nxrunner.bin 4096 215389 1 root 20 0 181664 7568 6544 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.11 3 40 644 0 0 666 0 0 11664 cups-browsed 3584 1725 1 colord 20 0 244880 7472 6448 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.13 3 174 772 0 0 666 0 0 11056 colord 3072 1137 1136 foo 20 0 105824 3520 1568 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 0 44 0 100 733 0 0 6592 (sd-pam) 3072 1262 1156 foo 20 0 226016 13216 9184 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.64 1 181 1390 0 0 666 0 0 16288 openbox 2560 870 1 polkitd 20 0 311328 6784 5248 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.18 3 174 2676 0 0 666 0 0 9344 polkitd 2560 1675 1579 nx 20 0 902528 5776 4752 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.20 11 65 624 0 0 666 0 0 8336 nxd 2048 983 1 root 20 0 250640 7360 5824 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.07 3 169 611 0 0 666 0 0 9408 ModemManager 2048 1152 1136 foo 9 -11 115920 14768 9248 S 0.0 0.2 0:14.09 3 297 1601 0 200 800 0 0 16816 pipewire 2048 215388 1 root 20 0 32096 5936 4400 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 1 69 498 0 0 666 0 0 7984 cupsd 1536 1 0 root 20 0 169792 9360 6368 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.41 1 244 7405 0 0 0 0 0 10896 systemd 1536 426 1 root 20 0 27776 4800 3264 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.17 1 99 1292 0 -1000 0 0 0 6336 systemd-udevd 1536 899 1 root 20 0 397328 9488 6416 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.80 5 91 2818 0 0 666 0 0 11024 udisksd 1536 954 1 root 20 0 263808 10288 7728 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.87 3 123 767 0 0 666 0 0 11824 NetworkManager 1536 1041 1 root 20 0 16832 4816 4816 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 1 51 482 0 -1000 0 0 0 6352 sshd 1536 1136 1 foo 20 0 20608 7472 6448 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.25 1 95 1531 0 100 733 0 0 9008 systemd 1536 1156 1131 foo 20 0 253200 8128 7104 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.55 3 145 1200 0 0 666 0 0 9664 lxsession 1024 861 1 root 20 0 240128 7808 5248 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.72 3 266 521 0 0 666 0 0 8832 accounts-daemon 1024 962 1 root 20 0 17680 4416 3904 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.19 1 31 391 0 0 666 0 0 5440 wpa_supplicant 1024 1131 1020 root 20 0 162752 7024 5488 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 3 114 459 0 0 666 0 0 8048 lightdm 1024 1153 1136 foo 20 0 87744 3280 3280 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 2 9 325 0 200 800 0 0 4304 pipewire 1024 1155 1136 foo 9 -11 173968 8304 5392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.36 3 168 1127 0 200 800 0 0 9328 pipewire-pulse 1024 1248 1136 foo 20 0 238992 5904 5392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 3 55 381 0 200 800 0 0 6928 gvfsd 1024 1253 1136 foo 20 0 387760 5312 4800 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 6 3 247 0 200 800 0 0 6336 gvfsd-fuse 1024 1266 1156 foo 20 0 181888 9632 8096 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 3 143 471 0 0 666 0 0 10656 lxpolkit 1024 1274 1 foo 20 0 17168 4304 4304 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 1 1 214 0 0 666 0 0 5328 systemd-inhibit 1024 1627 1604 foo 20 0 8384 3712 2688 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 1 1 483 0 0 666 0 0 4736 bash 1024 2833 1041 root 20 0 20080 6912 5376 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 1 0 446 0 0 666 0 0 7936 sshd 1024 2844 2833 foo 20 0 20496 5872 4272 S 0.0 0.1 0:15.41 1 6 162 0 0 666 0 0 6896 sshd 1024 2845 2844 foo 20 0 8816 3744 2720 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 1 0 2092 0 0 666 0 0 4768 bash 1024 2959 2958 foo 20 0 8272 3216 2704 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 1 0 553 0 0 666 0 0 4240 bash 512 406 1 root 20 0 58832 16992 15968 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.49 1 592 8563 0 -250 500 0 0 17504 systemd-journal 512 822 1 systemd+ 20 0 91136 5328 4816 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.14 2 3 364 0 0 666 0 0 5840 systemd-timesyn 512 864 1 root 20 0 13728 4192 3680 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 1 15 304 0 0 666 0 0 4704 bluetoothd 512 882 1 root 20 0 11520 3648 3136 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 1 25 266 0 0 666 0 0 4160 smartd 512 892 1 root 20 0 34352 6912 5376 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.67 1 48 394 0 0 666 0 0 7424 systemd-logind 512 1339 1136 foo 20 0 501984 10096 7024 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.28 4 57 556 0 200 800 0 0 10608 gvfs-udisks2-vo 512 1346 1136 foo 20 0 234480 5216 4704 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 3 1 253 0 200 800 0 0 5728 gvfs-mtp-volume 512 1350 1136 foo 20 0 234640 4752 4752 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 3 3 246 0 200 800 0 0 5264 gvfs-goa-volume 512 1354 1136 foo 20 0 313856 5840 5328 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.96 4 8 310 0 200 800 0 0 6352 gvfs-afc-volume 512 1359 1136 foo 20 0 235968 5728 5216 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 3 4 276 0 200 800 0 0 6240 gvfs-gphoto2-vo 512 1369 1 foo 20 0 157856 5344 4832 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 3 0 167 0 0 666 0 0 5856 menu-cached 512 1373 1248 foo 20 0 313296 6928 5904 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 3 81 329 0 200 800 0 0 7440 gvfsd-trash 512 1604 1 root 20 0 7984 3136 2624 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 9 302 0 0 666 0 0 3648 login 512 215407 215388 lp 20 0 18144 3760 2736 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 1 260 0 0 666 0 0 4272 dbusI can post the script but it will require something from github (temporary file/folder shell script code).
Statistics: Posted by swampdog — Wed Aug 20, 2025 2:19 am