Hi, > 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. >
Based on this e-mail, we should also implement "dir" command. When I started to use my first non-TOS/non-DOS/non-Win system - GNU/Linux distribution many years ago, I needed to learn there was strange command "ls" and not my favourite "dir" (+ /p /w parameters). "dir" is on the most of computers today. Even OpenVMS has that utility, I think. This whole discussion is just strange, we should help ALL immigrants by closing "usability gap", not only some "virtual GNU immigrants". Please, stop to integrate the most "known" tools to Opensolaris. Please, continue to implement and to integrate the best tools to Opensolaris. The best in two ways: a) functionality b) usability The best combinations of them. The problem of Opensolaris is not missing "top". The problem is in uncomplete infrastructure for easy packaging and distribution of the results. Best regards, Milan P.S.: Once more - target is not GNU world, target is in ALL users.
