Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:54:12 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmstat layout Message-ID: <20080201145412.GF67081@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <86k5lovrwj.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns. > > Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none of > the columns overflowed. > > The recent addition of -h helps with the avm and fre columns, but on a > busy system (e.g. a Varnish server on a busy web site), pretty much > every single column will overflow. If you have disks with names longer > than three letters, even the two header lines will be misaligned! > > Here's an example from a mostly idle machine: > > procs memory page disks faults cpu > r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ad1 ad2 ad3 ad10 ad12 in sy cs us sy id > 2 1 0 193M 1015M 444 2 8 0 4862 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 348 1297 4704 1 7 92 > > Removing columns is not an acceptable solution (it would break too many > existing scripts), so I'm afraid we're going to have to make the output > wider than 80 columns, unless someone can come up with a better solution. What about flipping the rows and columns? That will also give us more space to add better descriptions. -- Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> WWW: http://g-rave.nl/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkejMpMACgkQ52SDGA2eCwVUWwCdFsRA66G+/2/xhvkIjvCfkp4V orgAn2KrvjrviPu/UO0IvqzQH9c26rxN =cSGN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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