Eric Schrock <eric.schrock at Sun.COM> said: >>>On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:55:33PM +0100, Peter C. Tribble wrote: >>> >>>> I actually much prefer top to prstat. Comparing the two, prstat is missing >>>> a few things that I use all the time in top - the CPU states, the >>>> memory/swap statistics, and the last pid. Furthermore, you can change the >>>> sort order and filter by user on the fly. And generally, I just find top >>>> easier to read. >>> >>>Well, to each his own ;-) Sounds like a batch of RFEs for prstat. Too >>>bad Andrei's out of town for a while.
Well, one good rfe would be to ship top and treat it as a first class citizen. (Although top has its weaknesses. Not being zone-aware is one.) >>>> I wrote a java kstat browser, and I'm tempted to do the same for prtpicl >>>> (and maybe some of the other prt* commands), to make it easier to see the >>>> hierarchy and drill down into it. It's hard to wade through prtconf and >>>> prtpicl output (especially with -v on). >>> >>>Sounds cool. If you send me your opensolaris username I can add you as >>>a community leader and you can create a page for the tool. OK, I'm ptribble. >>>Or we can >>>put a link if you have it hosted somewhere already. http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/jkstat.html >>>I was thinking >>>along the lines of an "unbundled" section we we can place cool extra >>>tools. I'm sure there are plenty. The SE toolkit springs immediately to mind. >>>> One thing I would like to see much more of is graphical display of what's >>>> going on. You can have all the numbers in the world, but good graphical >>>> visualization tools can make it so obvious what's going on! >>> >>>Yes, this is very true. Our main effort in this area is a Java JNI >>>binding for libdtrace. With this in place, people will be able to >>>rapidbly deploy GUI applications built on top of DTrace. This interface >>>is nearly finished, and should be part of OpenSolaris real soon now. >>>While is hard to write "The DTrace GUI", having a proper Java interface >>>will let us test out alternative visualization tools. Sounds great! >>>Thanks for all the feedback. I'll make some of the obvious changes, but >>>if you want to help lead the community I'd be more than happy to add you >>>to the list. Thanks for making the changes, and I'm more than happy to get involved. -Peter Tribble MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
