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From: Dan Mahoney <danm@prime.gushi.org>
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Subject: Man page for top needs explanation of CPU states
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>Number:         130364
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Man page for top(1) needs explanation of CPU states
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    arundel
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 11 06:40:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 06 09:12:55 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Dan Mahoney
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD prime.gushi.org 6.4-STABLE FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 4 13:23:40 EST 2008 danm@prime.gushi.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRIME6 i386

>Description:

The top manpage lists at its end some FreeBSD notes, that describe what the various memory states are (wired cache buf etc).  
It's a useful piece of information.  However, the other information displayed in top (cpu states) have no such explanations.

>How-To-Repeat:

top

man top

>Fix:

I would suggest a correction but I'm not so sure I understand the subtleties of the various states well enough to document 
them in a definitive manner.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->arundel 
Responsible-Changed-By: arundel 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Aug 6 09:12:31 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to me, since I'm working on this issue atm. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130364 
>Unformatted:
