Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:55:05 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How does one know how many thread a process owns? Message-ID: <42617BA9.8070101@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4260D92C.1030703@freebsd.org> References: <425CC7F8.3030803@samsco.org> <425CD009.6040208@freebsd.org> <20050413132603.GA39006@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050413140838.GA77217@renaissance.homeip.net> <20050413141957.GA40546@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050415055604.N93987@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <425FA2AB.4070905@freebsd.org><425FFCF1.1080100@elischer.org> <20050415164941.E93987@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <4260D92C.1030703@freebsd.org>
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David Xu wrote: > Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >>> Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> >>>> On 2005-04-15 19:16, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> I just checked what top does on SunOS, when a program has more than 999 >>>> threads and it seems to clip the number of threads to 999, as if >>>> something min(999, numthreads) is what is printed :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> you could proint " !!!" or "LOT" >>> or do a roman numeral approx. >>> e.g. MMC (2100).. what's roman for 10000? >>> or 2E4 :-) >> >> >> >> I realize that top isn't an exact science, but I find that >> approximations are generally a bad idea. I am in favor of axing the >> useless CPU column and reclaiming some useful screen space for the >> others... :) >> >> Andy >> >> | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > >> | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > > > > > CPU column is not very useful when displaying process and > thread count, if it is only useful if it is displaying individual > thread which is activated by 'H' key. > > David Xu CPU and thread count column could be shared [CPU] )[1] [2] [3] ...[99] could be CPUnum.. that implies 1 thread 2..9999 is a thread count when H mode is on, then we just show [CPUNUM] wnen not we show [CPUNUM] or threadcount.
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