From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 13:18:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CAB16A4D0 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:18:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [82.68.196.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2177543D78 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:18:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C69222403; Thu, 12 May 2005 14:18:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11849-02; Thu, 12 May 2005 14:18:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from egg.helenmarks.co.uk (egg.helenmarks.co.uk [192.168.15.3]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DF9222402; Thu, 12 May 2005 14:18:13 +0100 (BST) From: Dominic Marks Organization: GoodforBusiness.co.uk To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:19:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505121349.31508.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> <4283565F.5000103@mbnet.fi> In-Reply-To: <4283565F.5000103@mbnet.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505121419.09662.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: By ClamAV 0.80 cc: Tuomo Latto Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:18:18 -0000 On Thursday 12 May 2005 14:13, Tuomo Latto wrote: > Dominic Marks wrote: > >>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. > > ... > > > I suppose it could be argued that using usernames of that format is a > > poor choice on my part, and if that is the consensus of opinion then I'll > > have to look at fixing my own setup. I use long format usernames because > > it do not wish to have to remember that rm5, rmoore (many other possible > > ways) is a particular person. > > finger? True, that would work, but it does increase the amount of time needed to get a proper idea of the current state of the system significantly, which is the purpose of top (to me). > > If this behaviour could be turned on and off, I'd be very happy. > > How about making it a command line parameter? The field size, I mean. -- Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.