Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:27:43 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system Message-ID: <20080930092743.GD3211@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20080929120441.GA43384@voi.aagh.net> References: <20080928054620.GA80250@k7.mavetju> <20080929120441.GA43384@voi.aagh.net>
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:04:41PM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Edwin Groothuis (edwin@freebsd.org) wrote: > > > I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base > > system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version. > > Looks good, thanks! > > IO mode seems to have changed a bit, giving different values to 3.5, it > seems while 3.5 gives you the count for the sample period, 3.8 always > gives you a per-second rate, e.g. top -mio -s 20: > > 3.8: > 44181 freaky 240 0 240 0 0 240 99.74% cat > > 3.5: > 44181 freaky 4664 5 4667 0 0 4667 100.00% cat > > This might be confusing, since it means values from two different top > -mio's are no longer directly comparable. I will make it back to per-period because that is the one which actually makes sense (IMHO). > 3.8 also seems to be lacking IO sorting options; "o vcsw" etc are > missing. Will they be returning? They will be back. > Also, the [number] argument given to -m io has no effect: > > top -m io 10 > > Setting it after loading with "n 10<enter>" causes top to exit. That's a good one to catch, thanks! Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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