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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:04:41 +0100
From:      Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system
Message-ID:  <20080929120441.GA43384@voi.aagh.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080928054620.GA80250@k7.mavetju>
References:  <20080928054620.GA80250@k7.mavetju>

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* Edwin Groothuis (edwin@freebsd.org) wrote:

> I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base
> system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version.

Looks good, thanks!

IO mode seems to have changed a bit, giving different values to 3.5, it
seems while 3.5 gives you the count for the sample period, 3.8 always
gives you a per-second rate, e.g. top -mio -s 20:

3.8:
   44181 freaky       240      0    240      0      0    240  99.74% cat

3.5:
   44181 freaky       4664      5   4667      0      0   4667 100.00% cat

This might be confusing, since it means values from two different top
-mio's are no longer directly comparable.

3.8 also seems to be lacking IO sorting options; "o vcsw" etc are
missing.  Will they be returning?

Also, the [number] argument given to -m io has no effect:

  top -m io 10

Setting it after loading with "n 10<enter>" causes top to exit.

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
    http://hur.st/



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