-.TH SAR 1 "MAY 2017" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH SAR 1 "JUNE 2017" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
sar \- Collect, report, or save system activity information.
.SH SYNOPSIS
A transfer is of indeterminate size.
.RE
-.B rd_sec/s
+.B rkB/s
.RS
-Number of sectors read from the device. The size of a sector is 512 bytes.
+Number of kilobytes read from the device per second.
.RE
-.B wr_sec/s
+.B wkB/s
.RS
-Number of sectors written to the device. The size of a sector is 512 bytes.
+Number of kilobytes written to the device per second.
.RE
-.B avgrq-sz
+.B areq-sz
.RS
-The average size (in sectors) of the requests that were issued to the device.
+The average size (in kilobytes) of the I/O requests that were issued to the device.
+.br
+Note: In previous versions, this field was known as avgrq-sz and was expressed in sectors.
.RE
-.B avgqu-sz
+.B aqu-sz
.RS
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 await