Subject: Re: change to top (or top change 8)
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/25/2003 11:01:10
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:40:37 +1100
Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> 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).

Hmm, looks to have the standard number of lines, unless HP have altered
their shipped version.

Chris