Re: Change top's notion of idle processes / threads

On 26 May 2014 11:51, Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> The change in the patch is good, the new behaviour is much more
> usable.  Note that we don't currently define "idle" in top(8); for
> this change maybe we should just state that non-idle processes may
> report 0% CPU due to rounding.

That said, I've discovered an issue with the change after using it a
bit more, when using -I on the command line.  (Previously I only tried
it by pressing I in interactive mode.)  With the change top -I lists
all processes at first (which is a little annoying), but it renders -I
ineffective when used with -b (batch mode).

What do you think about this additional change, so that we use the
previous 0% idleness test for the first iteration of the list:

 if (oldp == NULL)
- return (pp->ki_runtime != 0);
+ return (pp->ki_pctcpu != 0);

-Ed