Subject: Re: change to top (or top change 8)
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/25/2003 11:01:10
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:40:37 +1100
Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:05:19AM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > > Would people be interested in me applying the attached diff to
> > > give more detail on the memory usage in top, or rather it's more
> > > explicit, with the Memory line now adding up to the total amount
> > > of available memory, and the memory usage saying how much is used
> > > for what, my top now shows output such as:
> > >
> > > load averages: 0.39, 0.38, 0.36
> > >
> > > 00:59:01
> > > 79 processes: 1 runnable, 77 sleeping, 1 on processor
> > > CPU states: 5.9% user, 0.0% nice, 4.4% system, 0.0%
> > > interrupt, 89.7% idle
> > > Memory: 121M Act, 50M Inact, 1184K Wired, 14M Free
> > > Memory usage: 86M Anon, 31M Exec, 68M File, 24K Rsvd
> > > Swap: 641M Total, 181M Used, 461M Free
> >
> > This looks good. Do you really need to be that invasive into the
> > non-NetBSD parts of top(1)?
>
> I thought other OSs (maybe HP-UX?) had a different number
> of header lines? Maybe worth looking there (you'll need
> http://www.groupsys.com/top/dist/top-3.5beta9.tar.gz to look
> at how other operating systems are handled).
Hmm, looks to have the standard number of lines, unless HP have altered
their shipped version.
Chris