On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Chris Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > Samuel J. Greear wrote: >> >> 2010/9/23 Max Herrgård <[email protected]>: >> Personally, it doesn't bother me, not sure what the big deal is. > > its top. it's supposed to be all arcane and unixy. you're supposed to *know* > that your terminal is too small for all your processes. > or something. I dunno. > >> Wouldn't mind seeing it fill the terminal and display more than the >> maximum of 26? processes if it can, though. > > what like drop the whole header? > > or just the line btw the header and the actual > > PID USERNAME ... ? > > this is the status line for various status messages > and would probably take some mangling.. > > not trying to get too involved with top internals - > ostensibly it's a 3rd party-base thing[1] and therefore subject > to the usual maintinance / patching stuff.. > > but, wondering what you mean. > > while we're on the subject- anyone know about the status > of the various statii-displays in the help menu on other OS'es > that use "real" top.. > > I notice a few of our displays don't work.. wondering > what the state of the art in top technology is these days.. > could become yet another mini-project. > > also: while on the subject of various diagnostic tools - I also > note that systat on openbsd has grown some nice PF related > monitors that perhaps someone wants to tackle at some point.. > hmm.. > > ok. yeah. will get this patch in before the branch. > > .. [1] Top: http://www.unixtop.org/ >
Nothing that complicated :) -- I just meant it seems limited to displaying 26 processes, or 33 lines/rows total, no matter how many lines your terminal has. Sam
