--- latencytop-0.5/latencytop.8.orig 2009-04-28 16:37:54 +0300 +++ latencytop-0.5/latencytop.8 2010-02-08 17:15:54 +0200 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH LATENCYTOP 8 "November 9, 2008" +.TH LATENCYTOP 8 "September 29, 2009" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ latencytop \- a tool for developers to visualize system latencies .SH SYNOPSIS .B latencytop -.RI [ --unknown ] " " [ processes ... ] +.RI [ options ] " " [ processes ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B latencytop @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. -\fBlatencytop\fP is a Linux* tool for software developers (both kernel +\fBlatencytop\fP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the worst latency @@ -46,6 +46,34 @@ currently waiting for an \fBfsync\fP to finish. Pressing \fBf\fP again returns you to the normal operating mode of \fBLatencyTop\fP. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BI \-d +Dump once to console (without curses interface) +.TP +.BI \-\-unknown +Dump unknown symbols +.TP +.BI \-\-block +Block tracing + + +.SH KEY BINDING + +In the curses interface, the following keys are recognized: +.TP +.BI Z,A,D,Up,Back +previous process +.TP +.BI X,B,C,Down,Forward +forward one process +.TP +.BI Q +Quit latencytop +.TP +.BI R +Refresh data + .SH SEE ALSO .BR powertop (1) .br