Bug 12946
| Summary: | top(1) gives incorrect delay default | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | fullermd | ||||
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | Alexey Zelkin <phantom> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | 4.0-CURRENT | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->phantom Alexey, could you have a look and see why %delay% isn't bei ng expanded as expected? On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:43:55 +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> Anyway -- we need to fix it and we have two points how to do it:
>
> 1. fix manpage to reflect 2 sec. timeout.
> 2. fix top.local.h to reflect documented 5 sec. timeout.
Well, it'd be nice for the probelm to be fixed in 4.1-RELEASE (a few
hours from freeze now). So I'd suggest that we just fix the
documentation, rather than upsetting people by changing the way it seems
to have been in FreeBSD for as long as CVS can remember. :-)
Will you commit and merge? The manual page is already off the vendor
branch.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
State Changed From-To: open->closed manpage is corrected. Thanks! |
top(1) says under the -s option: -stime Set the delay between screen updates to time sec- onds. The default delay between updates is 5 sec- onds. However, empirical evidence (read: running top) shows that the default delay is 2 seconds. How-To-Repeat: man top