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Date:      Mon, 12 May 2008 13:46:34 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ncurses or top(1) is broken
Message-ID:  <20080512184633.GD67415@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080512182113.GA82050@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20080512182113.GA82050@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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In the last episode (May 12), Steve Kargl said:
> Script started on Mon May 12 12:00:30 2008
> mobile:kargl[201] setenv | grep TERM
> TERM=xterm
> mobile:kargl[202] stty -a | grep row
> speed 38400 baud; 43 rows; 90 columns;
> mobile:kargl[203] top 40
> top: warning: this terminal can only display 36 processes.
> ....
> last pid:   893;  load averages:  0.02,  0.05,  0.06 up 0+00:28:41 12:00:59
> 24 processes:  3 running, 21 sleeping
> CPU:     % user,     % nice,     % system,     % interrupt,     % idle
> Mem: 9880K Active, 7148K Inact, 22M Wired, 56K Cache, 29M Buf, 455M Free
> Swap: 712M Total, 712M Free

What's broken?  The header in top is 7 lines (your paste omitted a
blank line and the column headings for the process list), which means
that a 43-line window can only display 36 processes. 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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