Debian bug report logs - #662 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#662: top doesn't behave sensibly if fields overflow Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:18:12 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: procps X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:18:12 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 032813152516013; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:15:25 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0rtaVR-0005qbC; Tue, 28 Mar 95 04:36 PST Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA28818 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 28 Mar 1995 04:36:12 -0800 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #30) id m0rtaV2-000BzqC; Tue, 28 Mar 95 13:35 BST Received: by chiark (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0rtPGW-0002gOZ; Tue, 28 Mar 95 01:36 BST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 01:36 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Package: procps Version: 0.96-1 If (for example) you have a process that is 10Mb or more large, this causes the relevant field in the top listing to overflow. All the other fields get shifted up one, and if you're unlucky this will cause the line to become too long for the display. This in turn make top scroll the screen when it writes the last line of process listing. It keeps restarting the listing at the top of the screen and then scrolling the top line off. Here is an example of the kind of listing that caused the problem. This was cut-and-pasted from an 80-column xterm. 1:32am up 7 days, 10:27, 9 users, load average: 1.60, 1.94, 1.98 64 processes: 58 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 4 stopped CPU states: 8.0% user, 31.5% system, 0.0% nice, 60.8% idle Mem: 6688K av, 6560K used, 128K free, 2020K shrd, 1448K buff Swap: 33784K av, 21352K used, 12432K free PID USER PRI NI SIZE RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 18783 ian 27 0 114 316 320 R 27.2 4.7 0:01 /new/usr/bin/top 18487 ian 2 0 10204 700 2988 S 4.6 10.4 2:02 emacs -f make-session 14467 root 3 0 2078 588 544 S 2.9 8.7 6:44 (X) [rest deleted to save space] The line for emacs is 81 characters long. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#662: Acknowledgement (was: top doesn't behave sensibly if fields overflow) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#662" or "Re: Bug#662" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov