>>>>> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:56:34 -0800, Sam Horrocks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I think GTop will work - I'll try that. Unfortunately it's very difficult
> to find because it's up at the root (why?), and its readme doesn't contain
> words like "memory" or "process" so it didn't show up in a search.
> Wouldn't Sys::GTop would be preferable to a root-level GTop. At least
> Sys would sort-of categorize at as interfacing to the operating system.
> Putting in the root doesn't categorize it at all.
As I mentioned before, Sys:: has a phalanx against it. And I
wholeheartedly agree that the world is crazy wrt naming libraries. We
do inherit quite a lot of insanity from the outside world. And we came
repeatedly to the conclusion that there is some merit in using the
namespace that comes from the outside world even if decipherable only
to old hats or very young hats for that matter:-)
If I search for 'memory process' on freshmeat, I find LibGTop as 18th
hit. That's bad. Much better 'memory usage total processes' returns
only LibGTop. In this case I'd blame the bad search engine at
freahmeat that finding the library is so difficult.
--
andreas
