From: Philippe Proulx Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:36:57 +0000 (-0500) Subject: lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt: add that SIZE/PERIOD are approximations X-Git-Tag: v2.12.0-rc1~754 X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=17bb414db4aa496cf78525e10a947a4e47dd5f9c;p=lttng-tools.git lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt: add that SIZE/PERIOD are approximations Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau --- diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt index ef2b21611..eb7622d54 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt +++ b/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt @@ -30,13 +30,14 @@ so that an automatic rotation occurs every time the total size of the flushed part of the current trace chunk is at least 'SIZE' (bytes without a unit suffix). -With both the option:--timer and option:--size options, LTTng checks the +For both option:--timer and option:--size options, LTTng checks the schedule condition periodically using the monitor timers of the tracing session's channels. This means that, with the option:--timer option, the automatic rotation can occur when the elapsed time since the last automatic rotation is greater than 'PERIOD', and with the option:--size option, the automatic rotation can occur when the size of the flushed -part of the current trace chunk is greater than 'SIZE'. See the +part of the current trace chunk is greater than 'SIZE'. Therefore the +'PERIOD' and 'SIZE' arguments are approximations. See the nloption:--monitor-timer option in man:lttng-enable-channel(1) for more information about the monitor timer.