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The only complaint about htop is that it starts numbering CPUs from 1, while in real life CPU numbers start at 0. When I see core 18 is pegged with system(red), I instinctively want to ask perf -C 18 what's up... but that's not right, is it 17 or 19 again? If you're going to do that, don't show CPU numbers at all, just the collection of bars.


There is an option under "Display options" to change this.


Indeed, but why is starting from 1 the default? Literally no other software does this except for htop, and the numbers are meaningless because they're off-by-one when you try to compare to anything else.




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