Re: Strange top(1) output

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:54:59 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Skip Ford wrote:

> 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.

Wasn't the old max length of GECOS 8 chars? Setting it to anything less 
starts to become too short -- You're better off just outputting the UID.

Andy

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