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@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
-<refentry id="systemd-cgtop">
+<refentry id="systemd-cgtop"
+          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
 
         <refentryinfo>
                 <title>systemd-cgtop</title>
@@ -49,7 +50,8 @@
 
         <refsynopsisdiv>
                 <cmdsynopsis>
-                        <command>systemd-cgtop <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg></command>
+                        <command>systemd-cgtop</command>
+                        <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
                 </cmdsynopsis>
         </refsynopsisdiv>
 
 
                 <para><command>systemd-cgtop</command> shows the top
                 control groups of the local Linux control group
-                hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory and disk I/O load. The
+                hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory, or disk I/O load. The
                 display is refreshed in regular intervals (by default
                 every 1s), similar in style to
-                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>top</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+                <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>top</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+                If <command>systemd-cgtop</command> is not connected
+                to a tty, only one iteration is performed and no
+                columns headers are printed. This mode is suitable for
+                scripting.</para>
 
                 <para>Resource usage is only accounted for control
                 groups in the relevant hierarchy, i.e. CPU usage is
                 only accounted for control groups in the
                 <literal>cpuacct</literal> hierarchy, memory usage
                 only for those in <literal>memory</literal> and disk
-                I/O usage for those in
-                <literal>blkio</literal>. <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                by default places all services in their own control
-                group in the <literal>cpuacct</literal> hierarchy, but
-                not in <literal>memory</literal> nor
-                <literal>blkio</literal>. If resource monitoring for
-                these resources is required it is recommended to add
-                <literal>blkio</literal> and <literal>memory</literal>
-                to the <varname>DefaultControllers=</varname> setting
-                in <filename>/etc/systemd/system.conf</filename> (see
-                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                for details). Alternatively, it is possible to enable
-                resource accounting individually for services, by
-                making use of the <varname>ControlGroup=</varname>
-                option in the unit files (See
-                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                for details).</para>
+                I/O usage for those in <literal>blkio</literal>. If
+                resource monitoring for these resources is required,
+                it is recommended to add the
+                <varname>CPUAccounting=1</varname>,
+                <varname>MemoryAccounting=1</varname> and
+                <varname>BlockIOAccounting=1</varname> settings in the
+                unit files in question. See
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for details.</para>
 
                 <para>To emphasize this: unless
-                <literal>blkio</literal> and <literal>memory</literal>
-                are enabled for the services in question with either
-                of the options suggested above no resource accounting
-                will be available for system services and the data shown
-                by <command>systemd-cgtop</command> will be
+                <literal>CPUAccounting=1</literal>,
+                <literal>MemoryAccounting=1</literal> and
+                <literal>BlockIOAccounting=1</literal> are enabled for
+                the services in question, no resource accounting will
+                be available for system services and the data shown by
+                <command>systemd-cgtop</command> will be
                 incomplete.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
                 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
 
                 <variablelist>
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-h</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--help</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Prints a short help
-                                text and exits.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--version</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Prints a version string and
-                                exits.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>-p</option></term>
 
                                 tree traversal depth. Specifies how
                                 deep <command>systemd-cgtop</command>
                                 shall traverse the control group
-                                hierarchies. If 0 is specified only
-                                the root group is monitored, for 1
+                                hierarchies. If 0 is specified, only
+                                the root group is monitored. For 1,
                                 only the first level of control groups
                                 is monitored, and so on. Defaults to
                                 3.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+                        <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
                 </variablelist>
 
         </refsect1>
                                 <term>m</term>
                                 <term>i</term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Change ordering of control groups
+                                <listitem><para>Sort the control groups
                                 by path, number of tasks, CPU load,
-                                memory usage resp. IO
-                                load.</para></listitem>
+                                memory usage, or IO
+                                load, respectively.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term>%</term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Toggle between showing CPU time as
+                                time or percentage.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term>+</term>
                                 <term>-</term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Increase,
-                                resp. decrease refresh
-                                delay.</para></listitem>
+                                <listitem><para>Increase
+                                or decrease refresh
+                                delay, respectively.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                 </variablelist>
         <refsect1>
                 <title>Exit status</title>
 
-                <para>On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
+                <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
                 code otherwise.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-cgls</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>top</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>top</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>