Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:24:47 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps keyword.c Message-ID: <20050207225447.GS49637@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050207081054.GA57554@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <200502061634.j16GYnuv025551@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050206184516.GB1080@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20050207081054.GA57554@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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--eHrxbAcqt/LxKPZN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 7 February 2005 at 19:10:54 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, 2005-Feb-06 19:45:16 +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:34:49PM +0000, Christian S.J. Peron wrote: >> +> Since it is not un-common for a process's resident set size (rss) >> +> to exceed 10 megabytes in size (especially in X), bump the max >> +> column width from 4 bytes to 5. This will make the ps auxw output >> +> uniform again when a process's rss exceeds 10 megs. >> >> Maybe we can use humanize_number(3) here? > > Please ensure that if you do use humanize_number(3), there is a way of > getting rss and vsz values in fixed units. Tru64 switches between MB > and GB is ps output (which can't be disabled). I regularly need to > look at processes by size and it's very annoying to have 2.5GB and > 2.5MB processes mixed together. Agreed. I'd rather have overflowing columns than "humanized" stuff that I find difficult to read. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --eHrxbAcqt/LxKPZN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCB/G3IubykFB6QiMRAjGhAJ9QQzMkDXYDg7rPkCe6q1vSfIw6zwCfd0fo vB6w6jWiX7o2gdEVisT6xtE= =kdyE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eHrxbAcqt/LxKPZN--
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