How does one know how many thread a process owns?

[Julian Elischer]

David Xu wrote:
> Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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
>>
>> | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
>> | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
> 
> 
> 
> CPU column is not very useful when displaying process and
> thread count, if it is only useful if it is displaying individual
> thread which is activated by 'H' key.
> 
> David Xu

CPU and thread count column could be shared

[CPU]  )[1] [2] [3] ...[99]  could be CPUnum..
that implies  1 thread
2..9999 is a thread count

when H mode is on, then we just show [CPUNUM]
wnen not we show [CPUNUM] or threadcount.