Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 21:20:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top -osize Message-ID: <19980528212002.A11468@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <19980528211849.A10559@rtfm.net>; from "Nathan Dorfman" on Thu May 28 21:18:49 GMT 1998 References: <19980528211849.A10559@rtfm.net>
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In the last episode (May 28), Nathan Dorfman said: > It's been confirmed, it's not just me: > > <Andrew/#nohelp> nathan: -osize doesn't work here. > > Anyway, top -osize is supposed to sort by size instead of cpu usage. > Instead it prints a "this platform doesn't support arbitrary > ordering, sorry" message and ignores the option. > > Is there a real reason for it not being able to do this or is > something just mildly broken? The only reason is that no one's wanted to write the sort routines. Out of the 40 platforms supported by top 3.5b7, only 5 (aix32, aix41, sunos4, sunos5, and untrix4) even implemented -o. If I need a process list sorted by something, I usually pipe ps through sort myself. And you're in the wrong channel :) -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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