Re: iostat: cap wait/interval at 100 million seconds

2018-02-09 Thread Scott Cheloha
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 01:12:59PM +1300, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 05:41:34PM -0600, Scott Cheloha wrote: > > Hi, > > > > nanosleep(2) won't take more than 100 million seconds at a time, > > so we ought to cap interval when we read it in. Otherwise, an > > oversized interval

Re: iostat: cap wait/interval at 100 million seconds

2018-02-09 Thread Theo Buehler
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 05:41:34PM -0600, Scott Cheloha wrote: > Hi, > > nanosleep(2) won't take more than 100 million seconds at a time, > so we ought to cap interval when we read it in. Otherwise, an > oversized interval argument causes iostat(8) to print as fast as > it can. > > While here, "