Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:32:07 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <20050510153207.GA1256@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <c21e92e205051008282a11e53f@mail.gmail.com> References: <c21e92e20505100316667e6bd4@mail.gmail.com> <20050510105449.GA6223@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050510134409.GA691@lucy.pool-151-204-5-5.pskn.east.verizon.net> <20050510104018.M750@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <20050510152646.GA1164@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <c21e92e205051008282a11e53f@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-05-10 23:28, Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/10/05, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 2005-05-10 10:41, Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Skip Ford wrote: > > > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU > > > > COMM > > > >AND > > > >1352 skip 1 96 0 18968K 16276K select 0:21 0.00% 0.00% > > > >Xor > > > > 691 skip 1 8 0 4784K 3940K wait 0:08 0.00% 0.00% > > > > mut > > > > 684 skip 1 96 0 2336K 1948K select 0:07 0.00% 0.00% > > > > scr > > > > 667 root 1 4 0 24268K 23196K accept 0:06 0.00% 0.00% > > > > per > > > > 580 root 1 20 0 22896K 21948K pause 0:04 0.00% 0.00% > > > > per > > > > 447 root 1 96 0 2864K 1724K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% > > > > ntp > > > > > > What is the length of the longest username that you have on your system? > > > > Ah, yes! Good thought. This could affect the width of the USERNAME > > column and push everything too far to the right. If this is the case, > > I'd probably vote for optionally limiting the length of the username > > column to, say, 8 columns at most. > > What about the header mess? I don't think that has got to do with > usernames. Any ideas? This is a known problem of top's output code, which I meant to fix but never got around to. The header is printed as a single string, regardless of the output window size, so it may wrap around. The rest of the lines *are* limited by the window size, so they should never wrap at all. - Giorgos
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