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authorDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1998-12-27 21:38:09 +0000
committerDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1998-12-27 21:38:09 +0000
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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
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diff --git a/usr.bin/systat/systat.1 b/usr.bin/systat/systat.1
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@@ -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.