Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.12-3 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/top It turns out that $ top prints trailing blanks all the way to the right edge of the screen.
The problem is gone in -b batch mode, but in interactive mode, especially from remote systems, all those trailing blanks double the size of traffic, all for no good. It's as if one needs sed 's/ \+$//' to clean them up.
