vmstat layout

[Ed Schouten]

* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns.
> 
> Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none of
> the columns overflowed.
> 
> The recent addition of -h helps with the avm and fre columns, but on a
> busy system (e.g. a Varnish server on a busy web site), pretty much
> every single column will overflow.  If you have disks with names longer
> than three letters, even the two header lines will be misaligned!
> 
> Here's an example from a mostly idle machine:
> 
>  procs      memory      page                    disks                     faults         cpu
>  r b w     avm    fre   flt  re  pi  po    fr  sr ad0 ad1 ad2 ad3 ad10 ad12   in   sy   cs us sy id
>  2 1 0    193M  1015M   444   2   8   0  4862   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  348 1297 4704  1  7 92
> 
> Removing columns is not an acceptable solution (it would break too many
> existing scripts), so I'm afraid we're going to have to make the output
> wider than 80 columns, unless someone can come up with a better solution.

What about flipping the rows and columns? That will also give us more
space to add better descriptions.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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