Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:24:54 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmstat layout Message-ID: <47A40CB6.5090001@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <E02086F1-AB42-4C74-862C-AE981AC44C81@u.washington.edu> References: <86k5lovrwj.fsf@ds4.des.no> <E02086F1-AB42-4C74-862C-AE981AC44C81@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > >> vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns. >> >> Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none of >> the columns overflowed. > > [...] > >> Removing columns is not an acceptable solution (it would break too many >> existing scripts), so I'm afraid we're going to have to make the output >> wider than 80 columns, unless someone can come up with a better solution. >> >> DES > > What about multiline entries with indentation to group fields for "human > readable output"? > > For example... > > procs memory page disks > faults cpu > r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ad1 ad2 ad3 ad10 > ad12 in sy cs us sy id > 2 1 0 193M 1015M 444 2 8 0 4862 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 348 1297 4704 1 7 92 > > ...may become something like... > > field_title_0 field_title_1 field_title_2 > [subfields go here] [...] [...] > field_title_3 [...] field_title_n > [...] [...] [...] > > Does that make sense? not if you use awk to parse the output to cherrypick out the numbers you are intersted in... > > Cheers, > -Garrett_______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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