Subject: Re: changes to top to print wchan for sleeping procs
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/17/2001 17:44:45
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> > Well, keep the "state" column to make the "sleep" obvious, and add a
> > "wchan" column.
>
> That adds 8 columns (or so) which either makes the display > 80
> columns (which is a definite no-no, since many people run top on text
> displays), or necessitates removal of other useful information (and
> I'm sure we'd get complaints about that too).
I think Hubert wants to get rid of WCPU -- but I totally support keeping
the WCPU column, and simply doing the CAPS/nocaps thing for STATE versus
wchan.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>