Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:02:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How does one know how many thread a process owns? Message-ID: <20050415164941.E93987@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <425FFCF1.1080100@elischer.org> References: <425CC7F8.3030803@samsco.org> <425CD009.6040208@freebsd.org> <20050413132603.GA39006@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050413140838.GA77217@renaissance.homeip.net> <20050413141957.GA40546@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050415055604.N93987@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <425FA2AB.4070905@freebsd.org><425FFCF1.1080100@elischer.org>
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Julian Elischer wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On 2005-04-15 19:16, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> I just checked what top does on SunOS, when a program has more than 999 >> threads and it seems to clip the number of threads to 999, as if >> something min(999, numthreads) is what is printed :-) > > you could proint " !!!" or "LOT" > or do a roman numeral approx. > e.g. MMC (2100).. what's roman for 10000? > or 2E4 :-) I realize that top isn't an exact science, but I find that approximations are generally a bad idea. I am in favor of axing the useless CPU column and reclaiming some useful screen space for the others... :) Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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