Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:14:06 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ncurses or top(1) is broken Message-ID: <20080512191406.GA82536@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080512184633.GD67415@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20080512182113.GA82050@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20080512184633.GD67415@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:46:34PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 12), Steve Kargl said: > > Script started on Mon May 12 12:00:30 2008 > > mobile:kargl[201] setenv | grep TERM > > TERM=xterm > > mobile:kargl[202] stty -a | grep row > > speed 38400 baud; 43 rows; 90 columns; > > mobile:kargl[203] top 40 > > top: warning: this terminal can only display 36 processes. > > .... > > last pid: 893; load averages: 0.02, 0.05, 0.06 up 0+00:28:41 12:00:59 > > 24 processes: 3 running, 21 sleeping > > CPU: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle > > Mem: 9880K Active, 7148K Inact, 22M Wired, 56K Cache, 29M Buf, 455M Free > > Swap: 712M Total, 712M Free > > What's broken? The header in top is 7 lines (your paste omitted a > blank line and the column headings for the process list), which means > that a 43-line window can only display 36 processes. Hmmm. Appears to be pilot error. I was expecting more than 24 processes to be running. so the short list of displayed processes and the recent updating of ncurses led me to a wrong conclusion. Sorry about the noise. -- Steve
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