Update manual pages again

Explain that sysstat commands use kibibytes and mebibytes, but not
kilobytes and megabytes.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien GODARD <sysstat@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/man/cifsiostat.in b/man/cifsiostat.in
index ccf759e4a9eb0d73e655069f6ff29fac0a28e4b8..8800733abc98e21b3da9075b94206987c6ee1c87 100644 (file)
--- a/man/cifsiostat.in
+++ b/man/cifsiostat.in
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ filesystem must be mounted for
 .B cifsiostat
 to work.
 
+Although
+.B cifsiostat
+speaks of kilobytes (kB), megabytes (MB)..., it actually uses kibibytes (kiB), mebibytes (MiB)...
+A kibibyte is equal to 1024 bytes, and a mebibyte is equal to 1024 kibibytes.
 .SH FILE
 .I /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
 contains CIFS statistics.

diff --git a/man/iostat.in b/man/iostat.in
index cb623bd00677f2aa2f2fe768b5e76466ace41ff8..d84456a2dbdc15375cab70e5fd4bc8d131e4e913 100644 (file)
--- a/man/iostat.in
+++ b/man/iostat.in
@@ -537,6 +537,11 @@ filesystem must be mounted for
 to work.
 
 Kernels older than 2.6.x are no longer supported.
+
+Although
+.B iostat
+speaks of kilobytes (kB), megabytes (MB)..., it actually uses kibibytes (kiB), mebibytes (MiB)...
+A kibibyte is equal to 1024 bytes, and a mebibyte is equal to 1024 kibibytes.
 .SH FILES
 .I /proc/stat
 contains system statistics.

diff --git a/man/pidstat.1 b/man/pidstat.1
index 97c2c98f71cc7d35ea3c05cda08541029a71c321..61d5e19a09cf7866609243d7263f906bda225d80 100644 (file)
--- a/man/pidstat.1
+++ b/man/pidstat.1
@@ -654,6 +654,10 @@ filesystem must be mounted for the
 .B pidstat
 command to work.
 
+Although
+.B pidstat
+speaks of kilobytes (kB), megabytes (MB)..., it actually uses kibibytes (kiB), mebibytes (MiB)...
+A kibibyte is equal to 1024 bytes, and a mebibyte is equal to 1024 kibibytes.
 .SH FILES
 .IR /proc
 contains various files with system statistics.

diff --git a/man/sar.in b/man/sar.in
index 8e8d21b47bc4353f3a7e72f8ef44cc0c2cdd54e3..b4f56c6aea8d15c6bcceaacebe2081f5a29d2490 100644 (file)
--- a/man/sar.in
+++ b/man/sar.in
@@ -2563,6 +2563,11 @@ command to work.
 All the statistics are not necessarily available, depending on the kernel version used.
 .B sar
 assumes that you are using at least a 2.6 kernel.
+
+Although
+.B sar
+speaks of kilobytes (kB), megabytes (MB)..., it actually uses kibibytes (kiB), mebibytes (MiB)...
+A kibibyte is equal to 1024 bytes, and a mebibyte is equal to 1024 kibibytes.
 .SH FILES
 .I @SA_DIR@/saDD
 .br

diff --git a/man/tapestat.1 b/man/tapestat.1
index 14ee5a7e34caa69252caf0c4d4fa97e9e77da8af..5b8a2a0113d1b52a0d01ed0e594339a821ad66ec 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tapestat.1
+++ b/man/tapestat.1
@@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ to work. It will not work on kernels that do not have sysfs support
 This command requires kernel version 4.2 or later
 (or tape statistics support backported for an earlier kernel version).
 
+Although
+.B tapestat
+speaks of kilobytes (kB), megabytes (MB)..., it actually uses kibibytes (kiB), mebibytes (MiB)...
+A kibibyte is equal to 1024 bytes, and a mebibyte is equal to 1024 kibibytes.
 .SH FILES
 .I /sys/class/scsi_tape/st<num>/stats/*
 Statistics files for tape devices.