Yeah, I have seen ProcessTable talked about before, but its not found in our build of perl, so I assumed it was an extra module downloadable from CPAN...that is why I made mention that I couldnt use any extra stuff like that, only the built in stuff in the standard build of perl...

I would like to thank you though for your assistance, I am not sure how TOP calculates that %CPU stat, but that is the one that needs to be searched on. I was hoping for a special magic perl function that I didnt know about, but when trying out your snippet using top, it works pretty quick (alot faster than my attempt at using top) so it looks like that is the way to go for me.

Again, thank you for your wisdom!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Using Perl to find Process Hogs by Octavian
in thread Using Perl to find Process Hogs by Octavian

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