X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman%2Flttng-enable-rotation.1.txt;h=eb7622d54f86034169afaf37924440030005551b;hp=ef2b21611182f9c81ac2b6f7f0ecfd9d9fb2df2b;hb=17bb414db4aa496cf78525e10a947a4e47dd5f9c;hpb=b7b423343b46c1669491b428efc1df375bc90421 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.