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-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8 | 30 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8 b/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8 index f04cc42877ba..4566ad2a421d 100644 --- a/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8 +++ b/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)vmstat.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 21, 2006 +.Dd August 8, 2014 .Dt VMSTAT 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -38,9 +38,8 @@ .Nm .\" .Op Fl fimst .Op Fl afHhimPsz -.Op Fl c Ar count .Op Fl M Ar core Op Fl N Ar system -.Op Fl w Ar wait +.Op Fl c Ar count .Op Fl n Ar devs .Oo .Fl p @@ -48,7 +47,9 @@ .Ar type , if , pass .Sm on .Oc -.Op Ar disks +.Op Fl w Ar wait +.Op Ar disks ... +.Op wait Op count .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm @@ -91,10 +92,12 @@ and system calls since system startup, and the number of pages of virtual memory involved in each. .It Fl h -Changes memory columns into more easily human readable form. Default if +Changes memory columns into more easily human readable form. +The default if standard output is a terminal device. .It Fl H -Changes memory columns into straight numbers. Default if standard output +Changes memory columns into straight numbers. +The default if standard output is not a terminal device (such as a script). .It Fl i Report on the number of interrupts taken by each device since system @@ -214,6 +217,21 @@ Report on memory used by the kernel zone allocator, by zone. .El .Pp +The +.Ar wait +and +.Ar count +arguments may be given after their respective flags at any point +on the command line before the +.Ar disks +argument(s), or without their flags, as the final argument(s). +The latter form is accepted for backwards compatibility, but it is +preferred to use the forms with +.Fl w +and +.Fl c +to avoid ambiguity. +.Pp By default, .Nm displays the following information: diff --git a/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c b/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c index 67f438efbc5f..227f3c26adc2 100644 --- a/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c +++ b/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c @@ -299,15 +299,12 @@ retry_nlist: argv = getdrivedata(argv); } -#define BACKWARD_COMPATIBILITY -#ifdef BACKWARD_COMPATIBILITY if (*argv) { f = atof(*argv); interval = f * 1000; if (*++argv) reps = atoi(*argv); } -#endif if (interval) { if (!reps) @@ -1360,7 +1357,7 @@ static void usage(void) { (void)fprintf(stderr, "%s%s", - "usage: vmstat [-afHhimPsz] [-c count] [-M core [-N system]] [-w wait]\n", - " [-n devs] [-p type,if,pass] [disks]\n"); + "usage: vmstat [-afHhimPsz] [-M core [-N system]] [-c count] [-n devs]\n", + " [-p type,if,pass] [-w wait] [disks] [wait [count]]\n"); exit(1); } |