cvs commit: src/bin/ps keyword.c

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday,  7 February 2005 at 19:10:54 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-Feb-06 19:45:16 +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:34:49PM +0000, Christian S.J. Peron wrote:
>> +>   Since it is not un-common for a process's resident set size (rss)
>> +>   to exceed 10 megabytes in size (especially in X), bump the max
>> +>   column width from 4 bytes to 5. This will make the ps auxw output
>> +>   uniform again when a process's rss exceeds 10 megs.
>>
>> Maybe we can use humanize_number(3) here?
>
> Please ensure that if you do use humanize_number(3), there is a way of
> getting rss and vsz values in fixed units.  Tru64 switches between MB
> and GB is ps output (which can't be disabled).  I regularly need to
> look at processes by size and it's very annoying to have 2.5GB and
> 2.5MB processes mixed together.

Agreed.  I'd rather have overflowing columns than "humanized" stuff
that I find difficult to read.

Greg
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