top command in cygwin?

I am starting to use Cygwin(64) on my Windows 8 laptop, however, the top command is not recognized. I have read online that I need to get the procps package, but it is not available on the 'Cygwin Setup' package selections. How should I go about installing the procps package so that I can use top?

ps. for whatever reason ps and kill both work so I would think top would be included in whatever package allowed those guys to work, but there is no top command.

Solution 1:

The procps package is now available for 64-bit Cygwin (as of Nov. 21, 2013) using the most recent setup executable available on the Cygwin site. I just downloaded the procps package from the hoobly mirror and now top is available to me from 64-bit Cygwin on my Windows 8 machine.

See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-10/msg00009.html

Solution 2:

You need to install the procps package. See here:

procps: Utilities for monitoring your system and processes on your system.

Solution 3:

As in 2017, you should install the package procps-ng to get the top utility.

Solution 4:

Unfortunately at this time it seems that procps does not have a 64 bit version from cygwin.

You can use the 32 bit version of cygwin and install procps. That package contains the top command and more system monitoring utilities.