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-version 1.43, 2006/06/28 07:32:40
+version 1.44, 2006/06/28 08:52:11
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  .Dq idle
  process.
  .It Ic iostat
- Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
+ Display, in the lower window, statistics about disk throughput.
- and disk throughput.
- Statistics on processor use appear as
- bar graphs of the amount of time executing in user mode
- .Pq Dq user ,
- in user mode running low priority processes
- .Pq Dq nice ,
- in system mode
- .Pq Dq system ,
- and idle
- .Pq Dq idle .
  Statistics
- on disk throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of data transferred,
+ on disk throughput show, for each drive, bytes of data transferred,
  number of disk transactions performed, and time spent in disk accesses
  (in milliseconds).
- This information may be displayed as
- bar graphs or as rows of numbers which scroll downward.
- Bar graphs are shown by default.
- .Pp
- The following commands are specific to the
- .Ic iostat
- display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
- .Pp
- .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
- .It Cm numbers
- Show the disk
- .Tn I/O
- statistics in numeric form.
- Values are displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
- .It Cm bars
- Show the disk
- .Tn I/O
- statistics in bar graph form (default).
- .It Cm secs
- Toggle the display of time in disk activity (the default is to
- not display time).
- .It Cm split
- Toggle the display of separate read/write statistics (the default is
- combined statistics).
- .El
  .It Ic swap
  Show information about swap space usage on all the
  swap areas compiled into the kernel.