cvs commit: src/bin/ps keyword.c

Peter Jeremy PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Mon Feb 7 08:10:59 GMT 2005


On Sun, 2005-Feb-06 19:45:16 +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:34:49PM +0000, Christian S.J. Peron wrote:
>+>   Since it is not un-common for a process's resident set size (rss)
>+>   to exceed 10 megabytes in size (especially in X), bump the max
>+>   column width from 4 bytes to 5. This will make the ps auxw output
>+>   uniform again when a process's rss exceeds 10 megs.
>
>Maybe we can use humanize_number(3) here?

Please ensure that if you do use humanize_number(3), there is a way of
getting rss and vsz values in fixed units.  Tru64 switches between MB
and GB is ps output (which can't be disabled).  I regularly need to
look at processes by size and it's very annoying to have 2.5GB and
2.5MB processes mixed together.

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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