Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 23:15:43 -0700 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, mark@grondar.za, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: top(1) Message-ID: <19341.801296143@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 May 1995 22:21:30 PDT." <199505240521.WAA03738@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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In message <199505240521.WAA03738@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>, Satoshi Asami | =?I SO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= writes: >For one thing, it is fairly frequently upgraded and works with only >minor changes for FreeBSD. It is much easier to maintain a port of a >piece of software in that case than having it in our main source tree. And another reason: It currently doesn't understand the merged VM/buffer cache, and often confuses people as it reports they have less memory than they actually do, as it doesn't print any information about the number of pages in the cache (which is of course dynamic). Personally, I find top indispensable, but I would not like to see it go into the main source tree - it would become just another external program which instantly turns the CVS tree into nightmare to maintain. Yes, there are `proper' ways to do this sort of stuff with CVS, but all it takes is someone to do it wrong, and bang, you've got a mess on your hands. Thanks, but no thanks. Gary
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