From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4267801412928550905==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [Powertop] Too much memory consumption by powertop Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:54:53 -0700 Message-ID: <554001AD.8020701@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: CABsxX9KpabXDAds_1ZOs5BRnAyVb6bLv-k+QOGaAzUAJh28nHQ@mail.gmail.com To: powertop@lists.01.org List-ID: --===============4267801412928550905== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Maybe a more sensible 250x250 size would be a good default, as I seem to = be able to fill a 1080p screen with just under 250 columns, and it would gi= ve some scrolling overhead? > > that's at least a 16x reduction already compared to 1000x1000. > > You could dynamically calculate the number based on the terminal properti= es, but that would likely break on terminal resizes. it;s a bit more subtle this is the canvas on which the text gets put, your terminal is just a viewport into that canvas. the number of cpus etc determines how big that canvas needs to be, not the = width of our terminal --===============4267801412928550905==--