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

[Christopher Lameter]

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?