> Hi,
>
> "top" always puts CPU idle time in last, but I think in CPU states,
> idle is most important field, could anyone move idle field to first.
It all depends on your focus.
Someone using FreeBSD as a terminal or fax server with a whole bunch of
serial devices might want "interrupt" first. Someone running an Apache /
mod_perl / DBI machine might want "system" first. Someone running a server
as a development / shell box might want "user" first. And someone running
rc5 really doesn't care about idle or nice (since on my 3 boxes idle is
usually 0.0% and nice is around 90%, which of course skews the "true" load
of the system.)
Furthermore, anyone using 'top -d' in a shell script to grab and report CPU
usage data would have to change their scripts.
With this in mind, I doubt a compelling reason can be formulated to make
*any* field first, so it would be best to leave it the way it is.
--
Matt Emmerton
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