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 95f22017309f0025c724258335cf586b1d939e68 Author: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> Date: Mon Feb 6 00:00:00 2012 -0500 Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
COMPATIBILITY This code is intended for use with Linux 2.6.xx, 3.x and hopefully all future kernels. INSTALLATION If you are using git version of the project you need extra step. ./autogen.sh After that, and everyone using .tar.xz version of procps-ng, can do normal build. Read './configure --help' to select options for your needs. ./configure make make install If you have DejaGNU installed you can run optional test suite. make check HOW TO CONTRIBUTE See Documentation/BUGS file. PACKAGING If you are a downstream maintainer (packager) for a Linux distribution, please avoid causing troubles. This section applies to you. Avoid maintaining distribution specific patches. Send your patches to upstream, where they are at least reviewed, if not included. Please forward bug reports. If your bug database is public and busy enough to bother with, please make this known. Follow Debian's lead in making the bug database easy to comment on via email without need for an account. For normal packages, ensure that you do not add debugging flags to the CFLAGS variable. UPSTREAM & BUG REPORTS procps-ng <procps@freelists.org>
Description
Command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by Linux to provide information about the status of entries in its process table.
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