svctm: Update sar and iostat manual pages

Remove explanations for svctm metric from sar and iostat manual pages.

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

diff --git a/man/iostat.in b/man/iostat.in
index 60a2ba08152643c0091c760ef438aa80707ddb72..29bf8b9cc985f8c4718787a7bbc2291ad1458eaa 100644 (file)
--- a/man/iostat.in
+++ b/man/iostat.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH IOSTAT 1 "JULY 2018" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH IOSTAT 1 "NOVEMBER 2018" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
 .SH NAME
 iostat \- Report Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output
 statistics for devices and partitions.
@@ -289,13 +289,6 @@ The average queue length of the requests that were issued to the device.
 .br
 Note: In previous versions, this field was known as avgqu-sz.
 
-.RE
-.B svctm
-.RS
-The average service time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests that were issued
-to the device. Warning! Do not trust this field any more.
-This field will be removed in a future sysstat version.
-
 .RE
 .B %util
 .RS
@@ -484,11 +477,6 @@ filesystem must be mounted for
 to work.
 
 Kernels older than 2.6.x are no longer supported.
-
-The average service time (svctm field) value is meaningless,
-as I/O statistics are now calculated at block level, and we don't know
-when the disk driver starts to process a request. For this reason,
-this field will be removed in a future sysstat version. 
 .SH FILES
 .I /proc/stat
 contains system statistics.

diff --git a/man/sar.in b/man/sar.in
index 3a97e354e9efe205cde5d454d8a4913547a368a6..6369d2201040c68014d6cc0ce608edb4d9c17ef0 100644 (file)
--- a/man/sar.in
+++ b/man/sar.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH SAR 1 "OCTOBER 2018" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH SAR 1 "NOVEMBER 2018" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
 .SH NAME
 sar \- Collect, report, or save system activity information.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -342,13 +342,6 @@ to be served. This includes the time spent by the requests in queue and
 the time spent servicing them.
 .RE
 
-.B svctm
-.RS
-The average service time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests that were issued
-to the device. Warning! Do not trust this field any more. This field will be
-removed in a future sysstat version.
-.RE
-
 .B %util
 .RS
 Percentage of elapsed time during which I/O requests were issued to the device