On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:04:41PM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Edwin Groothuis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base > > system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version. > > Looks good, thanks! > > IO mode seems to have changed a bit, giving different values to 3.5, it > seems while 3.5 gives you the count for the sample period, 3.8 always > gives you a per-second rate, e.g. top -mio -s 20: > > 3.8: > 44181 freaky 240 0 240 0 0 240 99.74% cat > > 3.5: > 44181 freaky 4664 5 4667 0 0 4667 100.00% cat > > This might be confusing, since it means values from two different top > -mio's are no longer directly comparable.
I will make it back to per-period because that is the one which actually makes sense (IMHO). > 3.8 also seems to be lacking IO sorting options; "o vcsw" etc are > missing. Will they be returning? They will be back. > Also, the [number] argument given to -m io has no effect: > > top -m io 10 > > Setting it after loading with "n 10<enter>" causes top to exit. That's a good one to catch, thanks! Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
