gettime: get rid of the (unecessary) 10x scaling factor

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@@ -1070,7 +1070,8 @@ rate_process=str  This option controls how fio manages rated IO
                adjusted based on IO completion rates. If this is set to
                'poisson', fio will submit IO based on a more real world
                random request flow, known as the Poisson process
-               (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_process).
+               (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_process). The lambda
+               will be 10^6 / IOPS for the given workload.
 
 latency_target=int     If set, fio will attempt to find the max performance
                point that the given workload will run at while maintaining a