Bug 130364 - Man page for top(1) needs explanation of CPU states
Summary: Man page for top(1) needs explanation of CPU states
Status: Closed DUPLICATE of bug 118332
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2009-01-11 06:40 UTC by Dan Mahoney
Modified: 2018-06-10 06:28 UTC (History)
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Description Dan Mahoney 2009-01-11 06:40:01 UTC 
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.

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.
How-To-Repeat: 
top

man top
Comment 1 Alexander Best freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-08-06 10:12:31 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->arundel

Over to me, since I'm working on this issue atm.
Comment 2 Alexander Best freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-06-02 11:09:45 UTC 
Reset assignee -- not working on these PRs atm.
Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-06-10 06:28:18 UTC 
Closing in favor of 118332 which is similar and has more information.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 118332 ***