[approach-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Pkg proposal: top

[Peter Tribble]

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On 5/1/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:
> Solaris ships with top, but it is cleverly hidden on the Companion CD,
> and has been for uhmm... maybe 10 years or so.  Perhaps the only issue
> here is the bundling and PATH?
>
> There are many of us who get used to the features of prstat that don't
> exist in top, and therefore forget top exists.

What are those features? I vastly prefer top, and have wondered whether to
expend effort on enhancing prstat to match top, or just continue to use
top anyway. The course of least effort wins.

> Going forward, the system
> monitor may win over both, presuming we can put into it the features we need.

Like not simply putting up a grey window saying "the application
gnome-system-monitor has crashed".

Or improving its performance by at least a factor of 100 to bring it to
within acceptable limits.

Or working in a dumb telnet or ssh window.

We should just ship top and make the customers and users that want it happy.

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