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authorTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2013-05-31 11:02:54 +0200
committerTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2013-05-31 11:02:54 +0200
commited4e3c64dc80bb775f9ecfdd2165297e34e2fb0c (patch)
tree97f163a4b1d9af6c0da92acfed3e0019821142ef
parent2ac7ea413beb6324a1b00e0b5081688ded32a61b (diff)
man: ifpps: Mention CPU limit in first section and remove BUGS section
Mention the -n command line option in the general description, not just the hard limit. Also remove the BUGS section, since this is now basically resolved. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
-rw-r--r--ifpps.89
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ifpps.8 b/ifpps.8
index 26827b2..a0766f7 100644
--- a/ifpps.8
+++ b/ifpps.8
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ statistics, which are also fairly reliable under high packet load.
.PP
ifpps also periodically displays CPU load, interrupt, software interrupt
data per sample interval as well as total interrupts, all per CPU. In case
-the number of CPUs exceed 10, ifpps will then only display the top heavy
+the number of CPUs exceeds 10 or the number specified by the user with the
+\[lq]\-n\[rq] command line option, ifpps will only display the top heavy
hitters.
.PP
.SH OPTIONS
@@ -85,12 +86,6 @@ On 10Gbit/s cards or higher, receive and transmit statistics are usually
accumulated at a higher duration interval than 1 second. Thus, it might
be advisable to alter the timing to a higher accumulation interval for such cards.
.PP
-.SH BUGS
-Systems with greater than 32 cores are currently not supported. This
-should, however, not be a big task to fix. The only challenge would
-be to display the presented information in a sane way, probably by
-selectively hiding uninteresting statistics.
-.PP
.SH LEGAL
ifpps is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.0.
.PP