SMP CPU Statistics

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Sat Apr 30 15:26:36 PDT 2005


Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
Hiten Pandya wrote:

    In a day I will commit a program
    called cpustat(8) which will be able to display CPU load statistics
    for each CPU, just the way top(1) does.


Why not call it *top, like mtop or ctop? That gives it more relevance to 
it's logical ancestor.
	Because that will only be one of the functions of cpustat(8).  Also,
	I am not really keen on the name 'top'.  Infact, after an e-mail from
	Miguel, I am more interested in calling it mpstat(8) :-)
			-Hiten





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