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@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Access to MySQL can be made by one of the following methods:
 * connect via a socket with `--socket=/path/to/mysql.sock --user=someuser --password=somepass`
 
 The user if not specified will default to the contents of `$USER`.
+The port if not specified will default to 3306.
 
 ### Grants
 
@@ -49,7 +50,9 @@ queries, or the number of connections they have to MySQL. This is
 really missing a feature in MySQL (see: http://bugs.mysql.com/75156)
 to provide higher resolution query times than seconds. It gives
 some info but if the queries are very short then the integer runtime
-in seconds makes the output far less interesting.
+in seconds makes the output far less interesting. Total idle time is also
+shown as this gives an indication of perhaps overly long idle queries,
+and the sum of the values here if there's a pile up may be interesting.
 
 You can change the polling interval and switch between modes (see below).