On Tue 16 Oct 2007 at 07:56AM, Chad Mynhier wrote:
> # ./ptime -m -p `pgrep syslogd`
>
> real 49h06m53s
> user 35.72ms
> sys 34.10ms
> trap 154.1us
> tflt 0
> dflt 0
> kflt 0
> lock 343h48m03s
> slp 245h34m21s
> lat 65.53ms
> stop 43.64us
> #
>
> Part of me wants to argue against this, given that order-of-magnitude
> differences jump out from the default output, but this wouldn't be
> changing the default, so my argument would have no teeth.
I think Chad is right, except that I think his argument *does* have
teeth. To me, the "humanized" output is in this case harder to read
than the non-humanized output. If *anything*, a more suitable form might
be scientific notation, which allows one to more readily spot orders of
magnitude. But I don't think enough people are familiar with that to
make it worthwhile.
I believe the case is complete as-written. Folks wanting additional
features out of ptime(1) should please file RFE's.
-dp
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