TOP A top process display William LeFebvre and a cast of dozens "top" is a program that will give continual reports about the state of the system, including a list of the top cpu using processes. Version 3 of "top" has three primary design goals: provide an accurate snapshot of the system and process state, not be one of the top processes itself, be as portable as possible. Top distributions are provided as tar files compressed with either standard Unix compression (.Z) and gnu compression (.gz). Please choose the file that best suits your needs.