On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 13:16 +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: > For the libnuma support in top it could be an option to make this > not only a build/compile option but also a runtime option. OK this > may required some magic like to declare the functions numa_max_node() > and numa_node_of_cpu() as weak symbols and load the libnuma.so.1 on > demand if available but this may at least solve the problem that > most desktop users are not interested in NUMA support. Werner, thank you for the reply. I like the idea of dynamically loading/linking solely within top. That way there are no explicit dependencies and everyone would be happy. I'll explore this possibility... Thanks, Jim