Earlier this year, the switch from KiB to Mib as shown
in top's summary area was postponed to those occasions
when KiB exceeded 8 digits. In hindsight that may have
moved top in the wrong direction, given the difficulty
of digesting such large numbers of digits at a glance.
This commit adds a new 'E' interactive command used to
cycle the displayed memory amounts ranging from KiB to
TiB. Thus, users can choose the radix they wish shown.
p.s. and it will be rcfile preserved for any restarts!
(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports
commit 95f2201730
Author: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Date: Mon Feb 6 00:00:00 2012 -0500
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This 'Sleeping in function' field was made variable
width because the length of current kernel symbols
usually exceeded the former top's 9 character limit.
As a variable width field it would steal valuable
horizontal display positions from other, more likely,
displayed fields such as COMMAND or CGROUPS.
With the advent of the new 'X' toggle, no fixed-width
non-scalable field need suffer permanent truncation.
Thus, WCHAN is being made fixed width with a default
size of 10 characters.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
top/top.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
I have no idea what the maximum length of a terminal
name might be. However, the library provides for up
to 128 characters (ouch).
So just to be safe, this commit extends the ability
to widen columns to embrace this field.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This flaw was revealed under 'man2htm' and dates back
to the first Gitorious revised top submission.
Reference:
commit fd62123562
Date: Thu Mar 31 22:15:12 2011 +1100
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit represents mostly spelling corrections
in comments. It also includes a few very minor logic
changes/relocations.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This section purported to list fields in alphabetical
order, but this was not always true.
With this commit, strict ascii collating sequence is
now observed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
All warnings where about unnecessary quoting. The scriptlet
below will tell what was wrong.
for I in ./top/top.1 ./ps/ps.1 ./*.[0-9]; do
echo "== $I warnings =="
man --warnings=all $I > /dev/null
done
This should probably be turned to 'make check' script.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Since its inception top has provided for monitoring
only specific process ids via the -p command line
switch. This provision has also embraced the top
process itself, even though its pid wasn't yet known.
This commit simply documents the special zero value,
which would otherwise be an invalid process id.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Admittedly, top referred to memory quantities in
a variety of non-standard ways. This commit brings
the program and supporting documentation into strict
compliance with IEC standard binary names.
According to wikipedia, as of 2012 this IEC standard
was still not in widespread use. However, I'm making
this change now for the anal-retentive among us.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
Reported by: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/662786
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
