From 7b7904fe0cb75ea64eed08f11b44ffad6bcb87eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:17:22 +0000
Subject: Add an example illustrating the use sleep(1) for performing timed
 measurements.

---
 usr.sbin/pmcstat/pmcstat.8 | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.sbin')

diff --git a/usr.sbin/pmcstat/pmcstat.8 b/usr.sbin/pmcstat/pmcstat.8
index 1c48dc6..7361ceb 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pmcstat/pmcstat.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/pmcstat/pmcstat.8
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 29, 2008
+.Dd September 19, 2008
 .Os
 .Dt PMCSTAT 8
 .Sh NAME
@@ -303,11 +303,16 @@ and measure the number of data cache misses suffered
 by it and its children every 12 seconds on an AMD Athlon, use:
 .Dl "pmcstat -d -w 12 -p k7-dc-misses mozilla"
 .Pp
-To measure processor instructions retired for all processes named
+To measure instructions retired for all processes named
 .Dq emacs
 use:
 .Dl "pmcstat -t '^emacs$' -p instructions"
 .Pp
+To measure instructions retired for processes named
+.Dq emacs
+for a period of 10 seconds use:
+.Dl "pmcstat -t '^emacs$' -p instructions sleep 10"
+.Pp
 To count instruction tlb-misses on CPUs 0 and 2 on a Intel
 Pentium Pro/Pentium III SMP system use:
 .Dl "pmcstat -c 0,2 -s p6-itlb-miss"
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