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Or as Bryan Cantrill put it:

  When you're in top, what's the top process?
  top!
  "Hey man, good news, I've found the problem!
  I'm the problem!!
  Who would've thought that?!
  Don't run me!"

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taskman.exe is the one exception to this that I've seen, which I've wondered about ever since I switched over to non-Windows platforms. Is there something about NT that makes performance metrics unusually cheap, or is it just "lying" and not reporting that time anywhere?

That's curious. Running Win8.1 and Task Manager lists Task Manager with subprocess Task Manager, anyway, using variably 0 to ~1.0% CPU, 0.3% memory. How "truthful" these stats are, well I guess that's another question altogether...

Taskman sorts differently. Top sorts by the most recent active process, while taskman sorts by the process that has used the most CPU on average lately.

You can choose what to sort by in both.