etop

etop

Module

etop

Module summary

Erlang Top is a tool for presenting information about Erlang processes similar to the information presented by "top" in UNIX.

Description

Start Erlang Top with the provided scripts etop. This starts a hidden Erlang node that connects to the node to be measured. The measured node is specified with option -node. If the measured node has a different cookie than the default cookie for the user who invokes the script, the cookie must be explicitly specified with option -setcookie.

Under Windows, batch file etop.bat can be used.

When executing the etop script, configuration parameters can be specified as command-line options, for example, etop -node testnode@myhost -setcookie MyCookie. The foll