[pmontra]

I find the --raw output more useful than the interactive one. it scrolls away but I have time to read what's going on. The other one just disappears and is replaced by something else, which could be ok except sometimes there are seconds of useless black screen when nothing is going on. I suggest to never have blank screens. A suggestion for the raw output: add a timestamp at the beginning of the line. Probably HHMMSS is enough but YYYYmmdd would be handy for logging in background.

[noisy_boy]

Seconded. It might be a good idea to have a separate "top-so-far" section that can build-up over time to show the top consumers (and also allow sorting this by hostname to avoid too much jumping).