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authorEdward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>2019-12-02 21:03:09 +0000
committerEdward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>2019-12-02 21:03:09 +0000
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Expand stats(3) man page to add a caveat regarding HZ.
Suggested by: thj Sponsored by: Klara Inc, Netflix
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=355307
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diff --git a/share/man/man3/stats.3 b/share/man/man3/stats.3
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd October 7, 2019
+.Dd December 2, 2019
.Dt STATS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -960,3 +960,9 @@ The
framework and this manual page were written by
.An Lawrence Stewart Aq lstewart@FreeBSD.org
and sponsored by Netflix, Inc.
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Granularity of timing-dependent network statistics, in particular TCP_RTT,
+depends on the
+.Dv HZ
+timer.
+To minimize the measurement error avoid using HZ lower than 1000.