<s>
top	O
(	O
table	O
of	O
processes	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
task	B-General_Concept
manager	I-General_Concept
program	O
,	O
found	O
in	O
many	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
operating	I-Operating_System
systems	I-Operating_System
,	O
that	O
displays	O
information	O
about	O
CPU	B-General_Concept
and	O
memory	O
utilization	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Default	O
ordering	O
is	O
by	O
CPU	B-General_Concept
usage	O
,	O
and	O
only	O
the	O
top	O
CPU	B-General_Concept
consumers	O
are	O
shown	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
top	O
is	O
useful	O
for	O
system	B-Application
administrators	I-Application
,	O
as	O
it	O
shows	O
which	O
users	O
and	O
processes	O
are	O
consuming	O
the	O
most	O
system	O
resources	O
at	O
any	O
given	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
hosted	O
on	O
SourceForge	B-Application
,	O
and	O
release	O
3.7	O
was	O
announced	O
in	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
Solaris	B-Application
,	O
the	O
roughly	O
equivalent	O
program	O
is	O
prstat	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
has	O
the	O
tasklist	O
command	O
and	O
the	O
graphical	O
Task	B-General_Concept
Manager	I-General_Concept
utility	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	B-Application
AIX	I-Application
has	O
an	O
updating	O
running	O
processes	O
list	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
topas	O
and	O
topas_nmon	O
commands	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ps	B-Application
program	O
is	O
similar	O
to	O
top	O
,	O
but	O
instead	O
produces	O
a	O
snapshot	O
of	O
processes	O
taken	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
of	O
invocation	O
.	O
</s>
