Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:44:54 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <42838806.1000709@alumni.rice.edu> 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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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1922CBF4B99F7DA3A241BEAB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/12/2005 10:21 AM, Matthias Buelow 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.) I have the same preference. All I am saying is that we should preserve the SIZE functionality even if we disable its display by default. -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enig1922CBF4B99F7DA3A241BEAB 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) iD8DBQFCg4gMUFz01pkdgZURAmvUAKDaCKkHId28iqqb2B01fHlfh1vWigCdGUIK vM2TvqLC6wi8exKjHXbyG7k= =HpsH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1922CBF4B99F7DA3A241BEAB--
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