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diff --git a/stapprobes.5.in b/stapprobes.5.in index 7a3a3edd..2db9cf1f 100644 --- a/stapprobes.5.in +++ b/stapprobes.5.in @@ -69,6 +69,17 @@ reasonable range (1 to around a million), and M is restricted to be smaller than N. There are no target variables provided in either context. It is possible for such probes to be run concurrently on a multi-processor computer. +.PP +Alternatively, intervals may be specified in units of milliseconds. +There are two probe point variants similar to the jiffies timer: +.SAMPLE +timer.ms(N) +timer.ms(N).randomize(M) +.ESAMPLE +Here, N and M are specified in milliseconds. The probe intervals will be +rounded up to the nearest jiffies interval for the actual timer. If the +"randomize" component is given, then the random value will be added to the +interval before the conversion to jiffies. .SS DWARF |