On 25 March 2011 09:44, Glen Anderson <g.s.ander...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ultimately I think there should be a note explaining what happens in > the case of non-identical CPUs but without knowing what top does I'm > happy with either of the following diffs. > > I'll have a dig through the source to see if I can find out. I'm not > holding out much hope as "learn C" has been gathering dust on my todo > list for a while... A bit of code reading won't do me any harm though. >
Seems like i_cpustates in display.c is taking a mean. I still think it's best to leave out any mention of it though. Personally I prefer the first patch but I'm happy with either. > $ diff -u top.1 top.1.new > --- top.1 B B B Thu Mar 24 12:39:45 2011 > +++ top.1.new B Fri Mar 25 09:28:16 2011 > @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ > B The options are as follows: > B .Bl -tag -width Ds > B .It Fl 1 > -Display CPU statistics on a single line instead of a line per CPU. > +Display combined CPU statistics on a single line instead of individual CPU > +statistics on multiple lines. > B .It Fl b > B Use > B .Em batch > @@ -282,7 +283,8 @@ > B .Sq P > B interactive command. > B .It 1 > -Display CPU statistics on a single line instead of a line per CPU. > +Toggle between combined CPU statistics on a single line and individual CPU > +statistics on multiple lines. > B .It C > B Toggle the display of process command line arguments. > B .It d Ar count > >>>> $ diff -u top.1 top.1.new >>>> --- top.1 B B B Thu Mar 24 12:39:45 2011 >>>> +++ top.1.new B Thu Mar 24 17:59:30 2011 >>>> @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ >>>> B The options are as follows: >>>> B .Bl -tag -width Ds >>>> B .It Fl 1 >>>> -Display CPU statistics on a single line instead of a line per CPU. >>>> +Display CPU statistics for all processors on a single line instead of >>>> one >>>> +line per CPU. >>>> B .It Fl b >>>> B Use >>>> B .Em batch >>>> @@ -282,7 +283,8 @@ >>>> B .Sq P >>>> B interactive command. >>>> B .It 1 >>>> -Display CPU statistics on a single line instead of a line per CPU. >>>> +Toggle CPU statistics between a single line for all processors and one >>>> line >>>> +per CPU. >>>> B .It C >>>> B Toggle the display of process command line arguments. >>>> B .It d Ar count
