TOP Version 3.5beta7 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. Luke Mewburn is responsible for the NetBSD 1.2G machine module, with a further modification to that by christos@netbsd.org (Christos Zoulas).