&gt; Pidstat is a little like top’s per-process summary, but prints a rolling summary instead of clearing the screen. This can be useful for watching patterns over time, and also recording what you saw (copy-n-paste) into a record of your investigation.<p>top has a batch mode: &quot;top -b&quot; will print all processes periodically to the terminal, without starting the curses-style UI, providing the same &quot;rolling summary&quot;.