Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:05:33 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET> Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <E1DWDNe-0005AE-3p@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> of "Wed, 11 May 2005 13:24:47 EDT." <42823FDF.7060106@mac.com>
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> Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > > 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. > > +1. It's silly to scan the list of users to find the length of the longest > username, just in order to make the output *not* fit into 80 columns. :-) maybe the time has come to drop the 80 col. limit? it's been around for more that 100 years, and screens (most of them) can be streched :-) danny
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