Strange top(1) output

[Danny Braniss]

> Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:54:59AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >>Wasn't the old max length of GECOS 8 chars? Setting it to anything less 
> >>starts to become too short -- You're better off just outputting the UID.
> > 
> > I vote for removing (or make it optional) the code that measures 
> > username lengths. I have a system with >90k users (in LDAP) and it takes 
> > quite some time to find out the longest (just to cut the number down to 
> > 13 afterwards anyway). This even happens with "-u" in the standard top.
> 
> +1.  It's silly to scan the list of users to find the length of the longest 
> username, just in order to make the output *not* fit into 80 columns.  :-)

maybe the time has come to drop the 80 col. limit? it's been around for more
that 100 years, and screens (most of them) can be streched :-)

danny