tags -1 fixed-upstream On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 22:30, Wenbin Lv <wenbin...@gmail.com> wrote: > The description for --unit in vmstat(1) writes, "this does not change the > swap (si/so) or block (bi/bo) fields". This is inconsistent with the text in > section "FIELD DESCRIPTION FOR VM MODE", and "vmstat -S M" does change > numbers in si/so fields. Thanks for this report. It has been fixed upstream at: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/43ece4d2b0b8d5163ed118e76eff98c4988620db
I suspect its a hang-over from when the --unit option didn't change it, the code got updated but the manpage was only half done. - Craig
