Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 15:19:30 -0700 From: Satoshi Asami <asami> To: CVS-commiters, cvs-ports Subject: cvs commit: ports/utils/top/patches patch-ac Message-ID: <199506252219.PAA10101@freefall.cdrom.com>
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asami 95/06/25 15:19:30 Added: utils/top/patches patch-ac Log: Submitted by: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.DIALix.COM> Hi all.. I wasn't sure whether to send this to ports@freebsd.org, or send it via send-pr as a "change request".. Oh well here goes anyway... I made a change to top so that it would show the amount of data in the VM disk cache - because I was "informed" by a Linux user that Linux was obviously better than FreeBSD because Linux uses free memory for cache, and since FreeBSD is obviously so memory hungry that it only has 80K of free ram, then it can't be doing much caching at all, can it? It's not the first time I've seen that - the current flame wars in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc have been through is a few times too. Anyway, I extended top to show the amount of space allocated to cache - only it made the line too long, and try as I might, it didn't fit well without tossing something useful, or looking UGLY, so I made a seperate Memory: line and added a "Swap:" line as well, just like the linux top. It this patch will make top look like this: [........] Memory: 15M Active, 224K Inact, 2736K Wired, 4724K Cache, 4648K Free Swap: 31M Total, 23M Free, 26% Inuse [xxxKin] [yyyKout] [.... rest of display ....] (I've just quit XFree86, and the cache is filling up again...) I think that makes it pretty obvious where the memory is, and fairly unambiguous. I sent a much smaller version of this in before while the code freeze was in place still - but that version wrapped around the memory line if paging started. Anyway, here's my utils/top/patches/patch-ac:
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