diff --git a/collect.py b/collect.py
index 3e17b46..92e0118 100644
--- a/collect.py
+++ b/collect.py
@@ -100,14 +100,8 @@ def convert_to_megabytes(data_size):
     return int(size * unit_map[unit])
 
 
-def remove_ansi_escape(text):
-    """Removes ANSI escape sequences from a string."""
-    ansi_escape = re.compile(r"\x1B(?:[@-Z\\^[\]m])+")
-    return ansi_escape.sub("", text)
-
-
 def scaleMemstat():
-    command = ["top", "-n", "1"]
+    command = ["top", "-bn", "1"]
 
     filename = "memStat.csv"
     collect = runCollect(command)