Re: [htop-general] Preparing for 1.0

[Wim H. <wi...@he...>]

Hi Hisham,

I was able to checkout htop from SVN and compile it successfully, it's
running beautiful on our 64-core system, defaulting to the 4-column
view.

Thanks,
Wim


On 17 November 2011 22:19, Hisham <his...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I just made a major commit to SVN, containing the latest features and
> tweaks in preparation for htop 1.0.
>
> Please give it a try and let me know if you spot any problems. There
> are new CPU meters (contributed by Wim Heirman) for machines with
> large numbers of CPU. With an empty ~/.htoprc these should be detected
> and automatically enabled.
>
> I also modified the configure script so that it tries to enable UTF-8
> by default (motivated by the tree-drawing code contributed by Bin
> Guo), and tries to use the native Linux sched_setaffinity function
> instead of the hwloc library. My plan is to remove the embedded hwloc
> library from the sources. My recommendation for distro packagers is to
> use the native affinity support. It should work with all modern
> kernels/glibc's out there, and it makes htop noticeably lighter. The
> motivation for using PLPA (later switched to hwloc) was
> incompatibilities between kernel 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 APIs for CPU
> affinity: this shouldn't be a problem nowadays, but I will keep
> linking to hwloc as an option if anyone still needs this. If you have
> any information or opinions on this matter, please let me know.
>
> You can fetch the latest SVN code with:
>
> svn co https://htop.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/htop/trunk htop
>
> I plan to release htop 1.0 real soon, so I thank you in advance for
> any and all feedback.
>
> -- Hisham
> http://hisham.hm/ - http://colorbleed.com.br/
>