Subject: Re: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, realnc@arcor.de,
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On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 22:22 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > the latest version of latencytop also has a GUI (thanks to Ben)
> 
> That looks nice, but...
> 
> I kind of miss the split screen feature where latencytop would show both 
> the overall figures + the ones for the currently most affected task. 
> Downside of that last was that I never managed to keep the display on a 
> specific task.

Any idea of how to present it ? I'm happy to spend 5mn improving the
GUI :-) 

> The graphical display also makes it impossible to simply copy and paste 
> the results.

Ah that's right. I'm not 100% sure how to do that (first experiments
with gtk). I suppose I could try to do some kind of "snapshot" feature
which saves the results in textual form.

> Having the freeze button is nice though.
> 
> Would it be possible to have a command line switch that allows to start 
> the old textual mode?

It's there iirc. --nogui :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

> Looks like the man page needs updating too :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP
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