Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:55:20 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "xuyifeng" <xyf@stocke.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make top better Message-ID: <004301c08ff9$02549460$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <1439047499.20010206111156@stocke.com>
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> Hi, > > "top" always puts CPU idle time in last, but I think in CPU states, > idle is most important field, could anyone move idle field to first. It all depends on your focus. Someone using FreeBSD as a terminal or fax server with a whole bunch of serial devices might want "interrupt" first. Someone running an Apache / mod_perl / DBI machine might want "system" first. Someone running a server as a development / shell box might want "user" first. And someone running rc5 really doesn't care about idle or nice (since on my 3 boxes idle is usually 0.0% and nice is around 90%, which of course skews the "true" load of the system.) Furthermore, anyone using 'top -d' in a shell script to grab and report CPU usage data would have to change their scripts. With this in mind, I doubt a compelling reason can be formulated to make *any* field first, so it would be best to leave it the way it is. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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