Re: Strange top(1) output

From: Skip Ford <skip.ford_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:49:02 -0400
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-05-10 10:41, Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Skip Ford wrote:
> > > PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU
> > > COMM
> > >AND
> > >1352 skip             1  96    0 18968K 16276K select   0:21  0.00%  0.00%
> > >Xor
> > > 691 skip             1   8    0  4784K  3940K wait     0:08  0.00%  0.00%
> > > mut
> > > 684 skip             1  96    0  2336K  1948K select   0:07  0.00%  0.00%
> > > scr
> > > 667 root             1   4    0 24268K 23196K accept   0:06  0.00%  0.00%
> > > per
> > > 580 root             1  20    0 22896K 21948K pause    0:04  0.00%  0.00%
> > > per
> > > 447 root             1  96    0  2864K  1724K select   0:02  0.00%  0.00%
> > > ntp
> >
> > What is the length of the longest username that you have on your system?
> 
> Ah, yes!  Good thought.  This could affect the width of the USERNAME
> column and push everything too far to the right.  If this is the case,
> I'd probably vote for optionally limiting the length of the username
> column to, say, 8 columns at most.

FWIW, I'd vote for 6.  I'd much rather see more of the command.

-- 
Skip
Received on Tue May 10 2005 - 13:49:04 UTC

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