On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:51:02PM -0500, Protasevich, Natalie wrote:
Hi Natalie!
> I gave a quick run the suite on the 64x and 128x machines (x86_64) and
> it looked good, all passed but the last test (hotplug07.sh) which
> errored out due to syntax problems.
Hmm, what were the syntax problems? Case 7 had been disabled in
previous releases due to a path problem, so it's possible it has
additional errors.
> One thing to mention: the top command is pretty useless when the number
> of processors is big. It just complains about not enough space on the
> screen ("Sorry, terminal is not big enough") and won't show any
> processors. It appears that correct behavior should be showing
> processors screen by screen on spacebar or something like that.
Wow, how many cpu's do you have? Impressive that you can max out top!
Another possible solution would be an option to allow only displaying
the top N "most active" CPUs.
Are you able to run top at all on this machine, or does it simply
terminate on startup?
In any case, it would be good to contact the top maintainers. I've CC'd
Albert Cahalan, mentioned in my top manual as the person to send bug
reports to.
Albert, do you have a recommendation for how to use top on machines with
more cpu's than top can display?
Bryce
P.S., the test suite mentioned above is available at
http://developer.osdl.org/dev/hotplug/tests/
