Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:24:47 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <42823FDF.7060106@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050511060120.GA63918@e-Gitt.NET> References: <c21e92e20505100316667e6bd4@mail.gmail.com> <20050510105449.GA6223@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050510134409.GA691@lucy.pool-151-204-5-5.pskn.east.verizon.net> <20050510152646.GA1164@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050510154902.GC691@lucy.pool-151-204-5-5.pskn.east.verizon.net> <20050510115051.L750@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <20050511060120.GA63918@e-Gitt.NET>
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Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:54:59AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: >>Wasn't the old max length of GECOS 8 chars? Setting it to anything less >>starts to become too short -- You're better off just outputting the UID. > > I vote for removing (or make it optional) the code that measures > username lengths. I have a system with >90k users (in LDAP) and it takes > quite some time to find out the longest (just to cut the number down to > 13 afterwards anyway). This even happens with "-u" in the standard top. +1. It's silly to scan the list of users to find the length of the longest username, just in order to make the output *not* fit into 80 columns. :-) -- -Chuck
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