From ed9e564df5d7ac20485661f3268609c7619331b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:26:45 +0200 Subject: man: ifpps: document ifpps behaviour when CPU > 10 Document the behaviour of ifpps when we switch to heavy hitter mode. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann --- ifpps.8 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/ifpps.8 b/ifpps.8 index 2a158ba..12c8d8a 100644 --- a/ifpps.8 +++ b/ifpps.8 @@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ TCP per flow statistics (hence the use of the pcap library), that is not possible with ifpps, because overall networking statistics are our focus; 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 +hitters. +.PP .SH OPTIONS .PP .SS -d , --dev -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf