Re: ps (process status) vs ts (thread status)

[Julian Elischer <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

EJHaug wrote:
> Hi all,
> In wandering through the DragonFly kernel
> and looking at the ps and libkvm code.
> It appears that Matt has made threads the
> item of interest. On multiprocessors, there are
> as many separate thread queues as processors.  

in FreeBSD 5.x ps -H shows threads

also "top" has an H option to toggle showing threads.

> Is this observation going to remain true
> as development proceeds?
> If that is so, then a tool to report threads
> would be more useful than the process status tool.
> (the process status tool is incorrect in that processor 0 thread
> activity is reported some time and processor 1 thread activity
> is reported other times.)
> The entries for processes appear to be correct
> in both outputs.
>
> eric