vmstat layout

[Julian Elischer]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> DES
> 
> What about multiline entries with indentation to group fields for "human 
> readable output"?
> 
> For example...
> 
> 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
> 
> ...may become something like...
> 
> field_title_0            field_title_1        field_title_2
> [subfields go here]    [...]                [...]
>     field_title_3        [...]                field_title_n
>     [...]                [...]                [...]
> 
> Does that make sense?

not if you use awk to parse the output to cherrypick out the numbers 
you are intersted in...

> 
> Cheers,
> -Garrett_______________________________________________
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