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Subject: Re: bin/46382: ps(1) could use a "repeat" mode
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At 14:46 +0000 3/2/08, rwatson@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: ps(1) could use a "repeat" mode
>
> State-Changed-From-To: suspended->feedback
> State-Changed-By: rwatson
> State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 2 14:46:06 UTC 2008
> State-Changed-Why:
> Transition to 'feedback' as requested by brucec.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46382


Indeed, top is quite willing to repeat its display.
However, top is not configurable in all the same ways
as ps.  IIRC, I was feeding the output of ps into a
logging script.  ps gave me fine output, but I didn't
like the fact that I had to spawn a new instance for
each report.

FYI, I'm currently doing a similar sort of looging
activity, at a much finer level of granularity, using
DTrace.  If and when FreeBSD supports this tool, I
may try my logging suite out on it...

-r
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