On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:02:15PM +0000, Glen Anderson wrote: > > I liked the idea of using an adjective when talking about the combined > statistics however cumulative isn't really an accurate term and while > ostensibly mean seems appropriate I'm unsure how top calculates that > line on machines with CPUs of varying speeds. If it takes a mean of > the percentages it's clearly misleading, if it does something a it > cleverer use of the term mean is wrong. With this in mind I think the > following tweak to Jason's suggestion would be best. >
i'm fine with this. anyone object? jmc > $ diff -u top.1 top.1.new > --- top.1 Thu Mar 24 12:39:45 2011 > +++ top.1.new Thu Mar 24 17:59:30 2011 > @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ > The options are as follows: > .Bl -tag -width Ds > .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. > .It Fl b > Use > .Em batch > @@ -282,7 +283,8 @@ > .Sq P > interactive command. > .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. > .It C > Toggle the display of process command line arguments. > .It d Ar count
