Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:12:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <20050512131219.GB3107@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <200505121349.31508.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> References: <c21e92e20505100316667e6bd4@mail.gmail.com> <1115815807.8809.3.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20050512103929.GB1320@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <200505121349.31508.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk>
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On 2005-05-12 13:49, Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> wrote: >On Thursday 12 May 2005 11:39, you wrote: >> That's an option too. I'm currently trying to get top to display >> something like this (80 columns are used for text, so use a slightly >> wider terminal to view this properly: >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> last pid: 11090; load averages: 1.27, 1.26, 0.86 up 0+01:11:11 03:07:43| >> 71 processes: 3 running, 68 sleeping | >> CPU states: 11.2% user, 0.0% nice, 77.1% system, 0.8% interrupt, 10.9% idle | >> Mem: 50M Active, 348M Inact, 70M Wired, 20M Cache, 60M Buf, 6340K Free | >> Swap: 5000M Total, 5000M Free | >> | >> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND/NTHR | >> 4738 root 108 0 1360K 836K RUN 1:28 22.80% find/1 | >> 638 giorgos -8 0 13496K 4672K pcmwr 1:33 1.03% mpg123/1 | >> 11062 giorgos 96 0 2428K 1520K RUN 0:00 1.54% top/1 | >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > If you don't mind I will share my thoughts on these changes. Thanks :) > > This includes at least the following changes (some not visible): > > > > + The entire header line is limited to the window width too. > > + The USERNAME column is hard-limited to 8 characters. > > This makes me a little uneasy. Its a typical idiom, at least at my Business, > to have usernames which are of the form 'firstnamelastname', for this reason > they can be quite long and often the first 5-8 characters will be frequently > repeated, for example the following contrived names: > > rogermoore -> rogermoo > rogermoody -> rogermoo > charlottelane -> charlott > charlottedaniels -> charlott > > [...] > If this behaviour could be turned on and off, I'd be very happy. Hmmm, not a bad idea. You have a good point here. > > + When the view is toggled between processes/threads, the NTHR part > > becomes the thread ID of the particular thread. > > Okay, not really sure what this will look like to me but no need to explain > I'll wait until they hit -CURRENT and see for myself. Instead of displaying a single named/7 line, which would mean that there is a named process with 7 threads, in "thread mode" you would see 7 lines with named/0, named/1, named/2, ... which would be the thread IDs of the distinct threads.
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