From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 15:15:12 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 E275D16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 15:15:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B220043D6D for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 15:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.205.64 with login) by smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 May 2005 15:15:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3095F60ED; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:15:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05515-13; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:15:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6108960D5; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:15:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <428372F7.1050209@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:15:03 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Buelow References: <1115815807.8809.3.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20050512103929.GB1320@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <200505121349.31508.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> <20050512131219.GB3107@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <42836B8F.607@alumni.rice.edu> <42836F07.1030100@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <42836F07.1030100@incubus.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 OpenPGP: id=991D8195; url=http://www.noacks.org/cert/noackjr.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBC9179F982B5E27DFA88FCB7" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu 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 15:15:13 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBC9179F982B5E27DFA88FCB7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/12/2005 9:58 AM, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Jonathan Noack wrote: >>What happens if the command is long enough to overrun the screen? Is >>the thread information truncated and lost? I believe this was the >>argument for making a separate column for the thread info. > > How about leaving either SIZE or RES out, the one which makes less sense > for typical use (probably SIZE which, afaik, is quite pointless in the > presence of an overcomitting memory allocator, and the curious user > could consult ps if he's really interested in that). I think you will have a very hard time removing anything from top because someone will always pipe up and say, "I've been using since the days when computers were measured in MILLIhertz... *shaking fist*" Why not add an option to switch between SIZE and RES? Perhaps 'M'? Also, why aren't the interactive options sorted in the man page: h, q, d, m, n, s, S, k, r, u, o, e, i, t. Man pages are supposed to be *more* organized than my brain... -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enigBC9179F982B5E27DFA88FCB7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCg3L8UFz01pkdgZURAp7tAKDT1YetKKoNZGaG/k7cjiSbKm0TeACfd/wN omdD+EuMQWT1wyayiFGKpbQ= =m7IZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBC9179F982B5E27DFA88FCB7--