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author | David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-12-27 21:38:09 +0000 |
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committer | David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-12-27 21:38:09 +0000 |
commit | d623448808453c6c08fb85c1804fc14acc8a8a73 (patch) | |
tree | 10d26756cc4de7a5bd3acb887391d35ee93d4df7 /usr.bin/systat | |
parent | 57814d04d42d0a1005301fef7c508adf6e0cbd06 (diff) | |
download | src-d623448808453c6c08fb85c1804fc14acc8a8a73.tar.gz src-d623448808453c6c08fb85c1804fc14acc8a8a73.zip |
Update section on DK_NDRIVES (which was removed with CAM), and explain
relation to devstat(3)/(9).
Submitted-by: ken@freebsd.org
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=42105
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/systat')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/systat/systat.1 | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 index bbf22017c36f..64dfa35b871f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 +++ b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 @@ -304,16 +304,17 @@ the number and percentage of the translations that were handled by the per process name translation cache. .Pp At the bottom left is the disk usage display. -It reports the number of seeks, transfers, and number -of kilobyte blocks transferred per second averaged over the +It reports the number of +kilobytes per transaction, transactions per second and megabytes +per second averaged over the refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds). -For some disks it also reports the average milliseconds per seek. -Note that the system only keeps statistics on at most eight disks -(this is controlled by the constant -.Dv DK_NDRIVE -in -.Aq Pa sys/dkstat.h -as a kernel compile-time constant). +The system keeps statistics on most every storage device. In general, up +to seven devices are displayed. The devices displayed by default are the +first devices in the kernel's device list. See +.Xr devstat 3 +and +.Xr devstat 9 +for details on the devstat system. .Pp Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics on paging and swapping activity. |