Personally, I'd rather ps and top refrain from displaying kernel processes unless specifically requested. I don't recall either AIX or Solaris show kernel processes by default in ps.
CC On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > As an AMD-er, Paul Krizak sounds rightly proud of the new Opteron 6000 > "Magny-Cours" 12-core processors supported by the new RHEL5.5. However, > it occurs to me there are quite a few old-time one-dimensional GNU > utilities that are becoming cumbersome and largely obsolete in the face > of accelerating numbers of cores. > > One example that comes immediately to mind is 'top'. Here at the house > my three-years-old server has a pair of dual-core Opterons. Many of > top's entries appear in groups of four xxxx/0 thru xxxx/3, filling up > the visible page with repetitive entries. Servers with up to 48 cores > are going to need a top-ng that sorts processes by core and displays > them, perhaps, in multiple-tab format with one tab for each core. > > Just something to be thinking about... > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > -- RHCE#805007969328369 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
