From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 21:57:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D93016A4CE; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:57:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout1.pacific.net.au (mailout1.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBF343D2D; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:57:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87])j3ILvJJu024115; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:57:19 +1000 Received: from epsplex.bde.org (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) j3ILv70I025246; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:57:07 +1000 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:57:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@epsplex.bde.org To: "David O'Brien" In-Reply-To: <20050418063659.GB85819@dragon.NUXI.org> Message-ID: <20050419075242.H1559@epsplex.bde.org> References: <200504161543.j3GFhclO075103@repoman.freebsd.org> <86acnyd2k7.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050416191436.G68941@fledge.watson.org> <863btq4k9m.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050417110321.GA78636@gothmog.gr> <20050417222313.K946@epsplex.bde.org> <20050417135844.GA792@gothmog.gr> <20050418063659.GB85819@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: Robert Watson cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:57:33 -0000 On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:58:45PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> We can add a new toggle command to top, i.e. 'C', that toggles between >> displaying WCPU or CPU. This should regain us a lot of the space lost >> from COMMAND after I added THR. > > Please no. Both CPU & WCPU are quite useful on SMP systems. > I would truncate the username before loosing either CPU or WCPU. > There's a very low possibility that I couldn't figure out the user even > if 1-2 characters were trunated from it. What does CPU have to do with SMP? WCPU is the weighted CPU and differs subtly from CPU. I can't see any SMP dependencies for the usefulness of CPU vs WCPU, except possibly scheduling bugs might show up as large differences between them. Note that CPU has nothing to do with the CPU number. Bruce