Re: [announce/OT] kerneltop ver. 0.7

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

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.


-- wli