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

[Richard Elling]

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

Brian Gupta wrote:
> (I hope I have moved this thread to the appropriate groups: 
> "gnu-sol-discuss" "approach-discuss"). (I am just ccing tools-discuss, 
> to let people know where I am moving the discussion)
> 
> Almost all other FOSS operating systems use top to display a dynamic 
> list of processes. Solaris includes prstat, which A) is an unfamiliar 
> name to non Solaris folk, and B) doesn't support all the in application 
> commands.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> P.S. - My apologies for posting to the wrong board.
> 
> On 4/30/07, *Keith M Wesolowski* < keith.wesolowski at sun.com 
> <mailto:keith.wesolowski at sun.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:19:12PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
> 
>      > How do you propose to make top more accessable to non Solaris
>     users? (prstat
>      > is Solaris only)
> 
>     Actually, prstat is part of OpenSolaris, so it's not "Solaris only"
>     though I suppose you really mean it's "OpenSolaris-only."  It might be
>     interesting to consider a small compatibility wrapper that translates
>     top options to prstat options, or perhaps a top-compatibility mode in
>     prstat itself.  The Approachability Community Group might have more
>     ideas - that's why the new project instantiation process directs
>     project teams to the Community Groups.
> 
>     Just adding top to OpenSolaris is most definitely the wrong answer
>     here; it has the exact same function as prstat, but consumes 2-3x the
>     resources to perform it.  There's nothing wrong with having something
>     that's OpenSolaris-only; this community's objective is not to clone
>     someone's favourite GNU/Linux distribution with the OpenSolaris kernel
>     underneath, but to create the world's best operating system.
>     Sometimes compatibility with other systems is easy, and we should do
>     it; sometimes it's not worth it.  You need to go figure out which
>     bucket this belongs in.
> 
>     --
>     Keith M Wesolowski              "Sir, we're surrounded!"
>     FishWorks                       "Excellent; we can attack in any
>     direction!"
> 
> 
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