Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:21:18 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <4283746E.6010109@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <428372F7.1050209@alumni.rice.edu> References: <c21e92e20505100316667e6bd4@mail.gmail.com> <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> <428372F7.1050209@alumni.rice.edu>
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Jonathan Noack wrote: > 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 > <random_option> since the days when computers were measured in > MILLIhertz... *shaking fist*" Why not add an option to switch between > SIZE and RES? Perhaps 'M'? Yeah well.. presented with 80-column space constraints, however, I'd prefer to have a threads column rather than a virtual memory usage column (especially when that "virtual memory" isn't a real resource limit since the system is overcommitting, except when you set artificial limits via ulimit etc.) mkb.
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