cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-04-18 01:04, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>David O'Brien wrote:
>>On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 08:00:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
>>>Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>> Reduce the width of the THR column to 4 characters, to avoid wrap-around
>>>> of lines in SMP machines (which are wider), until we have a better way
>>>> of handling window sizes & columns in top.
>>>
>>> We should probably drop the CPU column (WCPU should suffice),
>>
>> No, 'CPU' is quite useful on SMP machines.
>
> except for multi threaded apps
> my suggestion is to use [CPU] if it's a CPU number (implying Nthreads == 1)
> and THREADNUM if it's multithreaded..
> so th column might read:
>
> [0]
> [2]
> 134
> [0]
>
> if you hit 'H' so that every thread gets a line,
> then you only see the [CPUNUM] versions
> so it looks as it does now. (except for the '[' and ']')

I sort of like this, but not a lot.  I'd like to avoid mixing up
different sorts of information in the same column, if at all possible.