Top Causing Terminal Gridlock

1. When 'top' is run in Terminal I get a long display of all the processes, plus the summation outline at the top of that. However, the window always keeps the summary in view on the top, and displays as many of the processes as will fit on the window as you expand it vertically.
2. What that has meant every time I've tried is that I can't get all of the processes displayed; it's as though 'top' is being held as incomplete. The scroll bar does not work. I can't get back to the command line/entry prompt, it won't accept any commands and, really, all I can do is close the window or quit the app altogether.
3. Is this just a glitch in the system or is there something else I should be doing to make this work correctly? TIA for any inputs/assistance.

Well I just cranked up top to give it a try and the only interactive command I can find that works (despite reading the man output a couple of times) is the "q" command which does perform the quit.
When top is in refresh mode it is only meant to display and refresh the number of processes that will fit on the screen.
If you just want to see the full list you can use the top -l1 command ie. log all the output one time.
Graham

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