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Date:      Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:58:50 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c
Message-ID:  <20050418095850.GB12892@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <42636A16.2070702@elischer.org>
References:  <200504161543.j3GFhclO075103@repoman.freebsd.org> <86acnyd2k7.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050418063321.GA85819@dragon.NUXI.org> <42636A16.2070702@elischer.org>

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On 2005-04-18 01:04, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>David O'Brien wrote:
>>On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 08:00:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
>>>Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>> Reduce the width of the THR column to 4 characters, to avoid wrap-around
>>>> of lines in SMP machines (which are wider), until we have a better way
>>>> of handling window sizes & columns in top.
>>>
>>> We should probably drop the CPU column (WCPU should suffice),
>>
>> No, 'CPU' is quite useful on SMP machines.
>
> except for multi threaded apps
> my suggestion is to use [CPU] if it's a CPU number (implying Nthreads == 1)
> and THREADNUM if it's multithreaded..
> so th column might read:
>
> [0]
> [2]
> 134
> [0]
>
> if you hit 'H' so that every thread gets a line,
> then you only see the [CPUNUM] versions
> so it looks as it does now. (except for the '[' and ']')

I sort of like this, but not a lot.  I'd like to avoid mixing up
different sorts of information in the same column, if at all possible.



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