Ncurses or top(1) is broken
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon May 12 18:57:37 UTC 2008
In the last episode (May 12), Steve Kargl said:
> Script started on Mon May 12 12:00:30 2008
> mobile:kargl[201] setenv | grep TERM
> TERM=xterm
> mobile:kargl[202] stty -a | grep row
> speed 38400 baud; 43 rows; 90 columns;
> mobile:kargl[203] top 40
> top: warning: this terminal can only display 36 processes.
> ....
> last pid: 893; load averages: 0.02, 0.05, 0.06 up 0+00:28:41 12:00:59
> 24 processes: 3 running, 21 sleeping
> CPU: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle
> Mem: 9880K Active, 7148K Inact, 22M Wired, 56K Cache, 29M Buf, 455M Free
> Swap: 712M Total, 712M Free
What's broken? The header in top is 7 lines (your paste omitted a
blank line and the column headings for the process list), which means
that a 43-line window can only display 36 processes.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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