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| author | sbruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-05-23 19:48:54 +0000 |
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| committer | sbruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-05-23 19:48:54 +0000 |
| commit | 689598f925531957064e59bc108a62b0a50718bf (patch) | |
| tree | d82256fb6612aeaf64c616e30219870b2270c8e9 /usr.sbin/iostat | |
| parent | 1eade2f18d773d7cfef9cb9218ba52a7a5b58dff (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-689598f925531957064e59bc108a62b0a50718bf.zip FreeBSD-src-689598f925531957064e59bc108a62b0a50718bf.tar.gz | |
Explain how the new sub-second interval from changeset:208389 works.
Approved by: scottl(mentor)
Obtained from: Yahoo Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/iostat')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 index 5952209..c8427e6 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 @@ -241,7 +241,14 @@ If no repeat is specified, the default is infinity. The .Nm -command will accept and honor a non-integer number of seconds. +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 +The interval will also suffer from modifications to hz so your mileage +may vary. .It Fl x Show extended disk statistics. Each disk is displayed on a line of its own with all available statistics. |
