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-.TH LATENCYTOP 8 "November 9, 2008"
+.TH LATENCYTOP 8 "September 29, 2009"
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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
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-\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
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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