On 2014-05-23 16:05, John Baldwin wrote: > Right now, when top is set to not display idle processes or threads, it only > displays processes or threads that are currently in a runnable state or have > a > non-zero %cpu. However, our %cpu is quite imprecise. I have patch to change > top to instead compare the thread or processes runtime (ki_runtime in > kinfo_proc) against the runtime of the thread or process the last time data > was fetched. In essence, top will consider any thread that has run on a CPU > since the last update as non-idle. The end result is that mostly-idle > threads > and processes will now be visible in top's idle display. Personally, I find > this more useful (and find the current implementation completely useless). > The patch is at http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/top_idle.patch > > Comments? >
I think this makes good sense. I would definitely prefer it. Would it make sense to maybe preserve the old behaviour behind a command line flag? -- Allan Jude
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