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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/systat/systat.1 | 19 |
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diff --git a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 index bbf2201..64dfa35 100644 --- a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 +++ b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 @@ -304,16 +304,17 @@ the number and percentage of the translations that were handled by the per process name translation cache. .Pp At the bottom left is the disk usage display. -It reports the number of seeks, transfers, and number -of kilobyte blocks transferred per second averaged over the +It reports the number of +kilobytes per transaction, transactions per second and megabytes +per second averaged over the refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds). -For some disks it also reports the average milliseconds per seek. -Note that the system only keeps statistics on at most eight disks -(this is controlled by the constant -.Dv DK_NDRIVE -in -.Aq Pa sys/dkstat.h -as a kernel compile-time constant). +The system keeps statistics on most every storage device. In general, up +to seven devices are displayed. The devices displayed by default are the +first devices in the kernel's device list. See +.Xr devstat 3 +and +.Xr devstat 9 +for details on the devstat system. .Pp Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics on paging and swapping activity. |
