Not to pass judgement on prstat, but top has been around a lot longer than prstat. Many of us are just used to using top.
Top has a very nice set of default informmation displayed, and has a good number of sorting options. In short for most of us, the tool you know is generally the best to use. (That's not to say learning new tools isn't desireable. I have to find the thread again, but the general summary is that top dispplays more high level info (dashboard) and is generally easier to use. prstat on the other hand has less impact on the system and has more fine grained metrics. I would bet that a majority of SAs from all the other NIXES all use top. I vote to put it in unless it has a namespace collision. On 5/11/07, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/05/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/11/07, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote: > > > > > > Top includes some additional data that the bundled prstat(1M) doesn't > > > currently print but the latter is far more efficient and again, better > > > integrated with other OpenSolaris technology such as primitives such as > > > tasks, projects, zones, etc. Given that the top currently shipped with > > > (some?) GNU/Linux distributions differs from "classic" top from William > > > LeFebvre, I would prefer our implementing top in terms of prstat > > > perhaps with some compatibility option. > > > > My *very strong* preference is to supply top - I much prefer it > > (and most of my users do too). If you don't ship top, then you'll > > keep having people request it be integrated. > > > > (There's room for debate here - top 3.5.x or 3.6? I know I prefer > > the traditional 3.5.x.) > > The question is, what does top have that prstat doesn't, and why can't > we just set it up so that if prstat is invoked as "top" it acts like > top. As far as I can tell, top and prstat are very much alike, and it > doesn't make any sense to ship two utilities that do basically the > same thing. > > If it really is a matter of top being drastically different somehow, > then I could understand. > > However, the danger I see in just throwing top in is that people that > don't know about prstat may not realise there is a better tool for > certain cases than top to use. > > Having top just for the sake of having it is the short version of my > concern. > > -- > "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright > > Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst > binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > sfwnv-discuss mailing list > sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sfwnv-discuss >
