doc/userguide: minor rewording and reformatting for runmodes

diff --git a/doc/userguide/performance/runmodes.rst b/doc/userguide/performance/runmodes.rst
index 6de162e6545ec145ee3a38b9f2f46f427b5fec61..621a563cf04e9b7555f2693fcd1a2ee7a1a7fb7c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/userguide/performance/runmodes.rst
+++ b/doc/userguide/performance/runmodes.rst
@@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ computer. Suricata is multi-threaded, so multiple threads are active
 at once.  A thread-module is a part of a functionality. One module is
 for example for decoding a packet, another is the detect-module and
 another one the output-module.  A packet can be processed by more than
-one thread. The packet will be passed on to the next thread through a
-queue. Packets will be processed by one thread at a time, but there
-can be multiple packets being processed at a time by the engine. (see
-:ref:`suricata-yaml-max-pending-packets`) A thread can have one or
+one thread. The packet will then be passed on to the next thread through
+a queue. Packets will be processed by one thread at a time, but there
+can be multiple packets being processed at a time by the engine (see
+:ref:`suricata-yaml-max-pending-packets`). A thread can have one or
 more thread-modules. If they have more modules, they can only be
-active on a a time.  The way threads, modules and queues are arranged
-together is called the Runmode.
+active one a a time.  The way threads, modules and queues are arranged
+together is called the "Runmode".
 
 Different runmodes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 You can choose a runmode out of several predefined runmodes. The
-command line option --list-runmodes shows all available runmodes. All
+command line option ``--list-runmodes`` shows all available runmodes. All
 runmodes have a name: single, workers, autofp.
 
 Generally, the ``workers`` runmode performs the best. In this mode the
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ on to the ``flow worker`` threads.
 .. image:: runmodes/autofp2.png
 
 Finally, the ``single`` runmode is the same as the ``workers`` mode,
-however there is only a single packet processing thread. This useful
-during development.
+however there is only a single packet processing thread. This is mostly
+useful during development.
 
 .. image:: runmodes/single.png