Subject: Re: change to top (or top change 8)
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/25/2003 12:40:37
Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:05:19AM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> This looks good. Do you really need to be that invasive into the non-NetBSD
> parts of top(1)?
I thought other OSs (maybe HP-UX?) had a different number
of header lines? Maybe worth looking there (you'll need
http://www.groupsys.com/top/dist/top-3.5beta9.tar.gz to look
at how other operating systems are handled).
Simon.
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