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Date:      Wed, 11 May 2005 08:01:20 +0200
From:      Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange top(1) output
Message-ID:  <20050511060120.GA63918@e-Gitt.NET>
In-Reply-To: <20050510115051.L750@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>
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Hi.

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:54:59AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> Wasn't the old max length of GECOS 8 chars? Setting it to anything less 
> starts to become too short -- You're better off just outputting the UID.

I vote for removing (or make it optional) the code that measures 
username lengths. I have a system with >90k users (in LDAP) and it takes 
quite some time to find out the longest (just to cut the number down to 
13 afterwards anyway). This even happens with "-u" in the standard top.

After being tired of 10 seconds startup time for top if ifdef'd the code 
in my sourcetree (-STABLE in that case) and everything is fine. Guess 
I'm not the only one to have "a few more" system users...

- Oliver

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