Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:31:45 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <op.sqn5e7ag8527sy@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4283746E.6010109@incubus.de> 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> <4283746E.6010109@incubus.de>
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On Thu, 12 May 2005 17:21:18 +0200, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> wrote: > 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.) What is so interesting about the number of threads of an application? I would add an option for use in the TOP env var or on the command line. -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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