documentation/3367: systat manpage, section "vmstat" describes non-existent meters

From: Hans-Joerg Hoexer <hshoexer(at)yerbouti.franken.de>
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 14:31:07 EDT

>Number: 3367
>Category: documentation
>Synopsis: systat manpage, section "vmstat" describes non-existent meters
>Confidential: yes
        

	System      : OpenBSD 3.3
	Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
	Machine     : i386

>Description:

	The manpage of systat lists in the "vmstat" section meters that
	actually are not shown by "systat vmstat" (see diff below):
		- read-only text pages
		- processes in page wait

>How-To-Repeat:

	see manpage systat, lines 132ff and 141ff
	run "systat vmstat"

>Fix:

Index: systat.1

---

RCS file: /cvs/openbsd/src/usr.bin/systat/systat.1,v retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 systat.1
--- systat.1 3 Jun 2003 02:56:17 -0000 1.28 +++ systat.1 24 Jul 2003 18:18:28 -0000 @@ -237,9 +237,7 @@
 The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.  The first column reports on the number of physical pages  claimed by processes.

-The second column reports the number of physical pages that
-are devoted to read-only text pages.
-The third and fourth columns report the same two figures for

+The second column report the same figure for  virtual pages, that is, the number of pages that would be  needed if all processes had all of their pages.  Finally, the last column shows the number of physical pages @@ -248,8 +246,6 @@
 Below the memory display is a list of the average number of processes  (over the last refresh interval) that are runnable  .Pq Sq r ,
-in page wait
-.Pq Sq p ,
 in disk wait other than paging
 .Pq Sq d ,
 sleeping

>Release-Note:
 Hans-Joerg Hoexer Received on Thu Jul 24 14:59:42 2003