From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 4 16:50: 6 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9D01551F; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA58452; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 09:17:45 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 09:17:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , thyerm@camtech.net.au, Ruslan Ermilov , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: top with < 1 second delay (was: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.1 sleep.c) Message-ID: <19991005091744.W40186@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199910041635.JAA67276@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199910041635.JAA67276@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:35:10AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Monday, 4 October 1999 at 9:35:10 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >>> I think it would be good to be able to run "top -s0.5" >> >> I don't think so. The output of top(1) (especially the CPU usage >> breakdown) becomes essentially useless if it is updated too often. >> >> As to adding funtionality to contributed software, we've already added >> functionality to top(1) (specifically, the -t flag and the 't' >> command). The maintainer never even bothered to reply when asked to >> review (and possibly integrate) the patches. >> >> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > top is kinda cpu-heavy. Occassionally I'll use 's0' just to > watch the display go nuts, but beyond the laughs having a less then > one second update time isn't all that useful for top. I think that depends on what you're looking at. I could imagine that people look at other things besides the CPU time breakdown. I personally think that it would be a useful thing to have. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message