Re: Strange top(1) output

On 2005-05-13 07:17, Chuck Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>The format of our top, to make comparisons easier is:
>>          1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8
>> 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
>>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>|  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>>|54842 root        1   8    0  2364K  1884K wait     0:09 10.91% 10.69% sh
>>|  762 keramida    1  96    0 82432K 31280K select   4:53  0.00%  0.00% Xorg
>>|65426 keramida    4  20    0 44240K 34152K kserel   4:12  0.00%  0.00% firefox-b
>>|  814 keramida    1  96    0  6188K  4424K select   1:06  0.00%  0.00% wmaker
>
> There's four blanks there, so one could handle usernames up to 11
> characters long.  Or else remove the double-space between USERNAME and THR.

It's not a bdouble space.  The THR column has a width of 4 characters
and a title of 3; that's why it looks like a double space :-$

> Agreed.  The question to answer, is how should one display the busiest
> threads of a process usefully in the top display?  Figuring that one
> out would be useful to answering other questions about what top should
> look like.

In "thread mode", every thread gets its own line.  In that case, you get
what you're looking for.  It's just not the default display mode, but
it's easily enabled by hitting 'H'.

>> Unfortunately, the current top uses very few of the features that a full
>> blown curses implementation would have.
>
> Curses by slow accumulation, rather than curses by design?  Ick.  :-)

Bingo :)