HP-UX top

It can be useful to read the changes document that accompanies each new software version. On HP-UX, a flag was added to the top command to not display individual CPU utilization metrics. This can be useful for allowing more process lines to be displayed on machines that have many CPUs.

From the HP example:

Once a 2 processor system, executing top displays individual CPU statistics:

System: 2wide Tue Apr 20 16:15:08 1
999
Load averages: 0.50, 0.51, 0.85
101 processes: 96 sleeping, 4 running, 1 zombie
Cpu states:
CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 1.00 91.1% 0.0% 0.8% 8.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
--- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
avg 0.50 45.5% 0.0% 0.4% 54.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Memory: 125556K (101488K) real, 140160K (121952K) virtual, 14404K free Pag
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Once the same 2 processor system, executing top -h displays the average CPU statistics:

System: 2wide Tue Apr 20 16:15:59 1
999
Load averages: 0.50, 0.51, 0.84
101 processes: 96 sleeping, 4 running, 1 zombie
Cpu states: (avg)
LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0.50 49.6% 0.0% 1.2% 49.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Memory: 131488K (107388K) real, 146016K (127172K) virtual, 8460K free Page
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