From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 16:45:07 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 315BA16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:45:07 +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 E880743D82 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:45:06 +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 16:45:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D0260ED; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:45:03 -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 05667-14-5; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:45:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB2360D5; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:45:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42838806.1000709@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:44:54 -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> <428372F7.1050209@alumni.rice.edu> <4283746E.6010109@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <4283746E.6010109@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="------------enig1922CBF4B99F7DA3A241BEAB" 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 16:45:07 -0000 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 >> 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--