Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 19:48:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r208460 - head/usr.sbin/iostat Message-ID: <201005231948.o4NJmsEV072897@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: sbruno Date: Sun May 23 19:48:54 2010 New Revision: 208460 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/208460 Log: Explain how the new sub-second interval from changeset:208389 works. Approved by: scottl(mentor) Obtained from: Yahoo Inc. MFC after: 2 weeks Modified: head/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 Modified: head/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 Sun May 23 19:46:19 2010 (r208459) +++ head/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 Sun May 23 19:48:54 2010 (r208460) @@ -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.
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