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authorgibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>1998-09-15 08:16:45 +0000
committergibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>1998-09-15 08:16:45 +0000
commitb954e9c2642216af00a08bacef1878dbfff8107d (patch)
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Update system to new device statistics code.
Submitted by: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/systat/systat.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/systat/systat.140
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
index 4ee5e2d..b035eb9 100644
--- a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
@@ -217,10 +217,10 @@ bar graphs of the amount of time executing in user mode (``user''),
in user mode running low priority processes (``nice''), in
system mode (``system''), in interrupt mode (``interrupt''),
and idle (``idle''). Statistics
-on disk throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of data transferred,
-number of disk transactions performed, and average seek time
-(in milliseconds). This information may be displayed as
-bar graphs or as rows of numbers which scroll downward. Bar
+on disk throughput show, for each drive, megabytes per second,
+average number of disk transactions per second, and
+average kilobytes of data per transaction. This information may be
+displayed as bar graphs or as rows of numbers which scroll downward. Bar
graphs are shown by default.
.Pp
The following commands are specific to the
@@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
Show the disk
.Tn I/O
statistics in bar graph form (default).
-.It Cm msps
-Toggle the display of average seek time (the default is to
-not display seek times).
+.It Cm kbpt
+Toggle the display of kilobytes per transaction. (the default is to
+not display kilobytes per transaction).
.El
.It Ic swap
Show information about swap space usage on all the
@@ -452,6 +452,32 @@ drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
.It Cm display Op Ar drives
Display information about the drives indicated. Multiple drives
may be specified, separated by spaces.
+.It Cm only Op Ar drives
+Display only the specified drives. Multiple drives may be specified,
+separated by spaces.
+.It Cm drives
+Display a list of available devices.
+.It Cm match Ar type,if,pass Op Ar | ...
+Display devivces matching the given pattern. The basic matching
+expressions are the same as those used in
+.Xr iostat 8
+with one difference. Instead of specifying multiple
+.Fl t
+arguments which are then ORed together, the user instead specifys multiple
+matching expressions joined by the pipe ( | ) character. The comma
+separated arguments within each matching expression are ANDed together, and
+then the pipe separated matching expressions are ORed together. Any
+device matching the combined expression will be displayed, if there is room
+to display it. For example:
+.Pp
+.Dl match da,scsi | cd,ide
+.Pp
+This will display all SCSI Direct Access devices and all IDE CDROM devices.
+.Pp
+.Dl match da | sa | cd,pass
+.Pp
+This will display all Direct Access devices, all Sequential Access devices,
+and all passthrough devices that provide access to CDROM drives.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr iostat 1 ,
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