Subject: Re: change to top (or top change 8)
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
From: Sean Davis <dive-spam@endersgame.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/24/2003 20:31:00
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:05:19AM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Would people be interested in me applying the attached diff to give more
> detail on the memory usage in top, or rather it's more explicit, with
> the Memory line now adding up to the total amount of available memory,
> and the memory usage saying how much is used for what, my top now shows
> output such as:
> 
> load averages:  0.39,  0.38,  0.36                                    
> 00:59:01
> 79 processes:  1 runnable, 77 sleeping, 1 on processor
> CPU states:  5.9% user,  0.0% nice,  4.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 89.7%
> idle
> Memory: 121M Act, 50M Inact, 1184K Wired, 14M Free
> Memory usage: 86M Anon, 31M Exec, 68M File, 24K Rsvd
> Swap: 641M Total, 181M Used, 461M Free
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU
> COMMAND

I like it. I have a 'uvminfo' program I wrote a while back to display pretty
much the same info that you propose having show up in top, I would rather it be
in top than I have to use my own utility (which, due to laziness, only shows
page counts, not actual amounts)

-Sean


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