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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>
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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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