Hi Pierre,
I wanted to let you know that with a soon to be released procps-ng-3.3.8 the
top %CPU and %MEM columns will be returned to their former widths and
precision. With yours as the most recent objection, I became convinced that
idea was *not* one of my best.
As for the actual memory columns, they'll retain their 3.3.6 widths but there's
a provision that may make them more to your liking. With release 3.3.6 both
the Summary Area and Task Area memory fields were made scalable.
The 'E' toggle deals with the Summary fields and the 'e' toggle affects the
Task fields. Whatever base value is preferred can be preserved in the .toprc
file, should you choose to use the 'W' command.
Those slightly increased widths mean displayed values have a better chance of
not being scaled. That, in turn, can be important to the release 3.3.7 'Other
filter' feature. That extremely powerful top enhancement takes the form of two
new commands ('O'/'o').
Anyway, thanks to your bug report neither of the above provisions is written in
stone. Both the percentage and memory fields can be controlled with these
./configure options for those willing to rebuild the source.
--enable-wide-percent
--disable-wide-memory
The most recent source is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/procps-ng/files/Production/
Regards,
Jim
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