Document PERCENT_NORM_CPU and mention Irix / Solaris modes (top lingo)

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.TP .TP
.B PERCENT_CPU (CPU%) .B PERCENT_CPU (CPU%)
The percentage of the CPU time that the process is currently using. 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 .TP
.B PERCENT_MEM (MEM%) .B PERCENT_MEM (MEM%)
The percentage of memory the process is currently using (based on the process's The percentage of memory the process is currently using (based on the process's