linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: Increase width of first /proc/slabinfo column

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Message-ID: <01000168a6e8944d-b8e72739-2611-4649-a8d2-304b98529b7d-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Feb 2019 02:34:46 +0000
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:     "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
cc:     Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: Increase width of first /proc/slabinfo column

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Tobin C. Harding wrote:

> Currently when displaying /proc/slabinfo if any cache names are too long
> then the output columns are not aligned.  We could do something fancy to
> get the maximum length of any cache name in the system or we could just
> increase the hardcoded width.  Currently it is 17 characters.  Monitors
> are wide these days so lets just increase it to 30 characters.

Hmm.. I wonder if there are any tools that depend on the field width here?