From 2328e52403dfa52d122a9f7ccbd365beaedb8c9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lange Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:46:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Document PERCENT_NORM_CPU and mention Irix / Solaris modes (top lingo) --- htop.1.in | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/htop.1.in b/htop.1.in index afd882e4..b2eba5d1 100644 --- a/htop.1.in +++ b/htop.1.in @@ -376,6 +376,15 @@ The user ID of the process owner. .TP .B PERCENT_CPU (CPU%) The percentage of the CPU time that the process is currently using. +This is the default way to represent CPU usage in Linux. Each process can +consume up to 100% which means the full capacity of the core it is running +on. This is sometimes called "Irix mode" e.g. in +.BR top (1). +.TP +.B PERCENT_NORM_CPU (NCPU%) +The percentage of the CPU time that the process is currently using normalized +by CPU count. This is sometimes called "Solaris mode" e.g. in +.BR top (1). .TP .B PERCENT_MEM (MEM%) The percentage of memory the process is currently using (based on the process's