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authoryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2010-08-07 11:48:31 +0000
committeryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2010-08-07 11:48:31 +0000
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Clean up the style and markup of the paragraph on fractional wait intervals.
MFC after: 3 days
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8
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@@ -239,14 +239,16 @@ seconds between each display.
If no
.Ar wait
interval is specified, the default is 1 second.
+.Pp
The
.Nm
command will accept and honor a non-integer number of seconds.
Note that the interval only has millisecond granularity.
-Smaller values will be truncated.
-.Pp
-e.g. -w1.0001 becomes -w1.000
-.Pp
+Finer values will be truncated.
+E.g.,
+.Dq Li -w1.0001
+is the same as
+.Dq Li -w1.000 .
The interval will also suffer from modifications to
.Va kern.hz
so your mileage may vary.
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