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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-06-28 08:52:12 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-06-28 08:52:12 +0000
commit65ce61c668f6cd88d7097e9d2e4fd8e7a54996e7 (patch)
tree11b2eabc62ab0996e2419724b564ca4e7c98f63d /usr.bin/systat
parentbcf735d269ce4cc1318a5ad3eb5f59bbae07d001 (diff)
update the `iostat' section; from deanna phillips
ok dlg
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/systat')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/systat/systat.141
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
index a05f2b1f138..460a96914d8 100644
--- a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: systat.1,v 1.43 2006/06/28 07:32:40 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: systat.1,v 1.44 2006/06/28 08:52:11 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: systat.1,v 1.6 1996/05/10 23:16:39 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1993
@@ -179,46 +179,11 @@ is accounted to the
.Dq idle
process.
.It Ic iostat
-Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
-and disk throughput.
-Statistics on processor use appear as
-bar graphs of the amount of time executing in user mode
-.Pq Dq user ,
-in user mode running low priority processes
-.Pq Dq nice ,
-in system mode
-.Pq Dq system ,
-and idle
-.Pq Dq idle .
+Display, in the lower window, statistics about disk throughput.
Statistics
-on disk throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of data transferred,
+on disk throughput show, for each drive, bytes of data transferred,
number of disk transactions performed, and time spent in disk accesses
(in milliseconds).
-This information may be displayed as
-bar graphs or as rows of numbers which scroll downward.
-Bar graphs are shown by default.
-.Pp
-The following commands are specific to the
-.Ic iostat
-display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
-.It Cm numbers
-Show the disk
-.Tn I/O
-statistics in numeric form.
-Values are displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
-.It Cm bars
-Show the disk
-.Tn I/O
-statistics in bar graph form (default).
-.It Cm secs
-Toggle the display of time in disk activity (the default is to
-not display time).
-.It Cm split
-Toggle the display of separate read/write statistics (the default is
-combined statistics).
-.El
.It Ic swap
Show information about swap space usage on all the
swap areas compiled into the kernel.