client: switch to per-client buffer

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index b555b208b3820b1aa0f624401ad0ca4a95c9a195..593f4db1cdcfd86550c12eea6c18c97774ff1dab 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ the value is interpreted in seconds.
 Force a full status dump of cumulative (from job start) values at \fItime\fR
 intervals. This option does *not* provide per-period measurements. So
 values such as bandwidth are running averages. When the time unit is omitted,
-\fItime\fR is interpreted in seconds.
+\fItime\fR is interpreted in seconds. Note that using this option with
+`\-\-output-format=json' will yield output that technically isn't valid json,
+since the output will be collated sets of valid json. It will need to be split
+into valid sets of json after the run.
 .TP
 .BI \-\-section \fR=\fPname
 Only run specified section \fIname\fR in job file. Multiple sections can be specified.