Subject: Re: change to top (or top change 8)
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
From: MFM <mfm@ns1.whiterose.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/25/2003 17:12:30
> 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

I think "Memory usage:" is a bit misleading, does it mean that "Memory:"
is non-used memory? Maybe "UVM statistics:" is more fitting? Or compact it
into two lines, I think it looks a little sparse now...

-Tomas