Yeah, we've had this problem with scaled 3950 clusters for a couple years. A good problem to have, but annoying all the same. Just make your xterm really big :)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Krizak Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:17 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Impact of Magny-Cours et al In case you were wondering what it looks like (screenshot attached) Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure Fax: (512) 602-0468 On 03/30/10 19:10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > As an AMD-er, Paul Krizak sounds rightly proud of the new Opteron 6000 > "Magny-Cours" 12-core processors supported by the new RHEL5.5. However, > it occurs to me there are quite a few old-time one-dimensional GNU > utilities that are becoming cumbersome and largely obsolete in the face > of accelerating numbers of cores. > > One example that comes immediately to mind is 'top'. Here at the house > my three-years-old server has a pair of dual-core Opterons. Many of > top's entries appear in groups of four xxxx/0 thru xxxx/3, filling up > the visible page with repetitive entries. Servers with up to 48 cores > are going to need a top-ng that sorts processes by core and displays > them, perhaps, in multiple-tab format with one tab for each core. > > Just something to be thinking about... > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
