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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:28:19 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333945 - head/usr.bin/top
Message-ID:  <20180610122819.GA75055@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180521063953.GA70671@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201805202319.w4KNJ9hj038452@repo.freebsd.org> <20180521094344.Q1053@besplex.bde.org> <20180521063953.GA70671@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 06:39:53AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> I [...] have to patch top(1) locally to use namelength = 8 and header
> format so it neatly looks like this:
> 
>   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
>   844 danfe      2  21    0   114M 38836K select  0  49:39   3.82% Xorg
>  5836 danfe     12  20    0   101M 23020K select  0  38:19   2.26% deadbeef
> 
> instead of our ugly, default this:
> 
>               vvvv
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
> 41086 danfe         1  20    0 13280K  3112K CPU1    1   0:00   0.09% top
>   751 root          1  20    0 10812K   596K select  2  16:53   0.03% powerd
>           ^^^^^^^^^^
> The amount of wasted space (shown above) is unjustified IMO.

I've just tried the latest top(8).  Now it's even worse:

              vvvvvvv (7, was 4)
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAN
  818 root             1  20    0  4484K  2148K select  0   0:01   1.57% moused
  995 danfe            2  20    0 94208K 40084K select  1   0:06   0.47% Xorg
 1107 danfe            1  20    0 35728K 14544K select  0   0:00   0.05% xterm

Notice COMMAN (before it was not truncated) and increased amount of wasted
space.

If I switch to separate threads mode ('H'), alignment breaks:

  PID USERNAME       PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
  818 root           20    0  4484K  2148K select  0   0:01   1.96% moused
  995 danfe          20    0 93660K 38912K select  1   0:06   0.57% Xorg{Xorg}
 1107 danfe          20    0 35728K 13624K select  0   0:01   0.05% xterm

If I press 'T', it says "Displaying tid", but the column name is THR, not
TID.  This is a bit confusing.

 Displaying tid
   THR USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMA
100122 root             1  20    0  4484K  2148K select  0   0:01   0.49% mouse

Also, it is COMMA now.  Can we please do something about this?  I am not
calling for "USER PRI" as Bruce had suggested, but "USERNAME PRI" is just
about right.  Most of the usernames are 8 characters or less.  Even if they
are longer, it makes more sense to truncate usernames than the column names
and, especially, command lines.  Thanks,

./danfe



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