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Use the specified socket file for the connection. 

• --sort , -r 

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Sort threads by usage; use --skip-sort  to disable. 

• --text , -t 

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Display data using text. This option or --graph  must be true; both options may be true. 

(The short form for this option was -x  in previous versions of NDB Cluster, but this is no longer supported.) 

• --usage 

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Display help text and exit; same as --help . 

• --user[ = name] , -u 

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Connect as this MySQL user. Normally requires a password supplied by the --password  option. 

Sample Output.  The next figure shows ndb_top  running in a terminal window on a Linux system with an ndbmtd  data node under a moderate load. Here, the program has been invoked using ndb_top -n8 - x  to provide both text and graph output: 

