.TH SYSMON 1 .CT 1 sa_mortals comm_users .SH NAME sysmon .SH SYNOPSIS .B sysmon [ .BI - n ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Sysmon monitors use of a Unix .I system. It displays time of day and CPU usage statistics. .PP CPU usage is reported as a numerical load average (average number of runnable processes) and its change in the last minute, and a bar graph showing, left-to-right, the proportion of CPU time spent in: default-priority user processes, low priority (nice) processes, system kernel, stream I/O (on 9th Edition systems), and idle time. .PP .PP The options are: .TP .BI - n Update the bar graph every .I n seconds. .RI ( n =5 by default.) .SH BUGS There's more to system performance than meets the eye.