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author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-05-10 20:26:09 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-05-10 20:26:09 +0000 |
commit | 2cb29e8e36c336e313d8d1cd62d766d42bf3ee31 (patch) | |
tree | 359fa848b1086d04583f3e87625392575861fe67 /usr.bin/top/top.1 | |
parent | 783022ba05ab7e5b2957597fb81d4f6e2bee6e14 (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.1 | 27 |
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 |