Re: Strange top(1) output

From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:24:47 -0400
Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:54:59AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>>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.
> 
> I vote for removing (or make it optional) the code that measures 
> username lengths. I have a system with >90k users (in LDAP) and it takes 
> quite some time to find out the longest (just to cut the number down to 
> 13 afterwards anyway). This even happens with "-u" in the standard top.

+1.  It's silly to scan the list of users to find the length of the longest 
username, just in order to make the output *not* fit into 80 columns.  :-)

-- 
-Chuck
Received on Wed May 11 2005 - 15:24:55 UTC

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