Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system

2008/9/28 Edwin Groothuis <edwin_at_freebsd.org>:
> I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base
> system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version.
>
> I have tried them on the amd64 architecture on FreeBSD -current and
> FreeBSD 7.0 and on the i386 architecture on FreeBSD 7.0.
>
> The big new features are a line upper part with kernel statistics
> (context-switches, traps, interrupts, faults etc) and the FLG table
> (if you window is big enough)
>
> Some features specific to FreeBSD (dual display (press m)), threaded
> processes, and jails have been ported to 3.8b1.
>
> The biggest fix (AFAICT) is the TIME and CPU table for threaded
> processes, which are now calculated properly.
>
> The new code can be found on
>    http://www.mavetju.org/~edwin/freebsd-top-3.8b1-A.tar.gz
> Go to 3.8b1/usr.sbin/top and run "make" there to produce the binary,
> then run it via "./top".
>
> Please report any issues with it (compile time, run time) and a way
> to reproduce it (if possible). Thanks for your help!
>
> Edwin
>
> --
> Edwin Groothuis
> edwin_at_freebsd.org
> http://www.mavetju.org

Hello.

I have one issue, maybe not so important though.
I've compiled top 3.8b1 on my 7.1-PRERELEASE and it looks like "t"
hotkey (toggle displaying "top" process) don't work at all.
(Sorry if somebody has pointed out that one already. I haven't read
all thread so thoroughly. )

-- 
Best regards,
Jeff.