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SubjectRe: [announce/OT] kerneltop ver. 0.7
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:53:42PM +1000, Cef (LKML) wrote:
> Looks good! A few suggestions....
> Might want to add support for /boot/System.map containing the version number
> (eg: /boot/System.map-`uname -r` ), if /boot/System.map doesn't exist, before
> just dropping out with an error.
> For clarity, you might want to invert the "address function ....." line to
> separate the header from the actual displayed data (like top does).
> Having the total up in the header instead of at the end of the data might also
> be useful (eg: next to ticks perhaps?) as it's really a waste of a display
> line for 1 number.
> Also a little more verbosity in the error messages would be good.
> eg:
> /proc/profile not found:
> You need to enable profiling support in your kernel to use kerneltop
> /proc/profile Permission Denied:
> You need to be root to run kerneltop
> Hope these comments are useful.

Please try the patch I just posted which eliminates the need to be root.


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