How does one know how many thread a process owns?

Fri Apr 15 14:02:56 PDT 2005

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
>> On 2005-04-15 19:16, David Xu <davidxu at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I just checked what top does on SunOS, when a program has more than 999
>> threads and it seems to clip the number of threads to 999, as if
>> something min(999, numthreads) is what is printed :-)
>
> you could proint " !!!"  or "LOT"
> or do a roman numeral approx.
> e.g.  MMC  (2100).. what's roman for 10000?
> or 2E4  :-)

I realize that top isn't an exact science, but I find that approximations 
are generally a bad idea. I am in favor of axing the useless CPU column 
and reclaiming some useful screen space for the others... :)

Andy

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