[PATCH] Make top -P an interactive toggle

[Alexander Best]

On Mon Jul 11 11, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday, July 09, 2011 5:44:16 am Alexander Best wrote:
> > On Sat Jul  9 11, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > On Fri Jul  8 11, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > > On Fri Jul  8 11, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > > This patch lets you use 'P' while top is running to toggle between per-CPU and
> > > > > global CPU stats.
> > > > 
> > > > very cool. i always thought that being able to interactivly enable/disable
> > > > per-cpu stats in top would be a useful feature. great to see this being
> > > > implemented.
> > > 
> > > oh...and of course i tested your patch. ;) works great without any issues.
> > 
> > would it be possible to display a note when using 'P'? E.g. when pressing 'z'
> > top informs the user with one of these messages:
> > 
> > "Displaying system idle process."
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > "Not displaying system idle process."
> > 
> > would be nice to have something similar when pressing the 'P' key. Maybe:
> > 
> > "Display per-cpu CPU usage statistics."
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > "Not display per-cpu CPU usage statistics."
> 
> Ok, I went with "Displaying per-CPU statistics" and
> "Displaying global CPU statistics".

cool! thanks. :)

i've discovered a few other top-related issues and will be posting problem
reports and patches throughout the next week.

i also got a mail by bruce evans describing some more issues. since some of
them are pretty techie, i might not be able to provide patches for each one of
them, however i'll try to document them all.

cheers.
alex

> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin