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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 | 25 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 index 4f7b1d18e66..58fcbeaf58e 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: iostat.8,v 1.24 2010/08/08 12:36:50 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: iostat.8,v 1.25 2011/02/10 14:52:35 millert Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: iostat.8,v 1.10 1996/10/25 18:21:57 scottr Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)iostat.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: August 8 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 10 2011 $ .Dt IOSTAT 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -50,11 +50,6 @@ displays kernel I/O statistics on terminal, disk and CPU operations. By default, .Nm displays one line of statistics averaged over the machine's run time. -The use of -.Fl c -presents successive lines averaged over the -.Ar wait -period. The .Fl I option causes @@ -79,9 +74,9 @@ Unless the .Fl I flag is in effect, the first display is for the time since a reboot and each subsequent report is for the time period since the last display. -If no repeat -.Ar count -is specified, the default is infinity. +Unless overridden by the +.Fl w +option, the wait interval between lines is 1 second. .It Fl D Show alternate disk statistics. Displays kilobytes transferred, number of @@ -117,9 +112,13 @@ flags are used. Pause .Ar wait seconds between each display. -If no -.Ar wait -interval is specified, the default is 1 second. +Unless a +.Ar count +is specified via the +.Fl c +option, +.Nm +will display output until it is interrupted. .El .Pp .Nm |