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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-05-10 20:26:09 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-05-10 20:26:09 +0000
commit2cb29e8e36c336e313d8d1cd62d766d42bf3ee31 (patch)
tree359fa848b1086d04583f3e87625392575861fe67 /usr.bin/top/top.1
parent783022ba05ab7e5b2957597fb81d4f6e2bee6e14 (diff)
Describe load average and remove useless "BUG". OK deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/top/top.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/top/top.127
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/top/top.1 b/usr.bin/top/top.1
index 7579e4cdf9c..4857c5d647d 100644
--- a/usr.bin/top/top.1
+++ b/usr.bin/top/top.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: top.1,v 1.23 2003/09/19 10:32:24 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: top.1,v 1.24 2004/05/10 20:26:08 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, Jason Downs. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ The top few lines of the display show general information
about the state of the system, including
.\" the last process ID assigned to a process,
.\" (on most systems),
-the three load averages,
+the three load average numbers,
the current time,
the number of existing processes,
the number of processes in each state
@@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ the number of processes in each state
and a percentage of time spent in each of the processor states
(user, nice, system, and idle).
It also includes information about physical and virtual memory allocation.
+The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged
+over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
.Pp
The remainder of the screen displays information about individual
processes.
@@ -370,27 +372,6 @@ kernel image
.Sh AUTHORS
William LeFebvre, EECS Department, Northwestern University
.Sh BUGS
-Don't shoot me, but the default for
-.Fl I
-has changed once again.
-So many people were confused by the fact that
-.Nm
-wasn't showing them all the processes that I have decided to make the
-default behavior show idle processes, just like it did in version 2.
-But to appease folks who can't stand that behavior, I have added the
-ability to set
-.Li default
-options in the environment variable
-.Ev TOP
-(see the
-.Sx OPTIONS
-section).
-Those who want the behavior that version 3.0 had need only set
-the environment variable
-.Ev TOP
-to
-.Li -I .
-.Pp
The command name for swapped processes should be tracked down, but this
would make the program run slower.
.Pp