On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns.
>
> Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none =20=
> of
> the columns overflowed.
[...]
> Removing columns is not an acceptable solution (it would break too =20
> many
> existing scripts), so I'm afraid we're going to have to make the =20
> output
> wider than 80 columns, unless someone can come up with a better =20
> solution.
>
> DES
What about multiline entries with indentation to group fields for =20
"human readable output"?
For example...
procs memory page =20
disks faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ad1 ad2 ad3 ad10 =20=
ad12 in sy cs us sy id
2 1 0 193M 1015M 444 2 8 0 4862 0 0 0 0 0 0 =20=
0 348 1297 4704 1 7 92
....may become something like...
field_title_0 field_title_1 field_title_2
[subfields go here] [...] [...]
field_title_3 [...] =
field_title_n
[...] [...] =
[...]
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
-Garrett=
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