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34.Dd September 9, 1997
35.Dt SYSTAT 1
36.Os BSD 4.3
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm systat
39.Nd display system statistics on a crt
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Op Fl display
43.Op Ar refresh-interval
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45.Nm Systat
46displays various system statistics in a screen oriented fashion
47using the curses screen display library,
48.Xr curses 3 .
49.Pp
50While
51.Nm
52is running the screen is usually divided into two windows (an exception
53is the vmstat display which uses the entire screen).  The
54upper window depicts the current system load average.  The
55information displayed in the lower window may vary, depending on
56user commands.  The last line on the screen is reserved for user
57input and error messages.
58.Pp
59By default
60.Nm
61displays the processes getting the largest percentage of the processor
62in the lower window.  Other displays show swap space usage, disk
63.Tn I/O
64statistics (a la
65.Xr iostat  8  ) ,
66virtual memory statistics (a la
67.Xr vmstat  8  ) ,
68network ``mbuf'' utilization,
69.Tn TCP/IP
70statistics,
71and network connections (a la
72.Xr netstat  1  ) .
73.Pp
74Input is interpreted at two different levels.
75A ``global'' command interpreter processes all keyboard input.
76If this command interpreter fails to recognize a command, the
77input line is passed to a per-display command interpreter.  This
78allows each display to have certain display-specific commands.
79.Pp
80Command line options:
81.Bl -tag -width "refresh_interval"
82.It Fl Ns Ar display
83The
84.Fl
85flag expects
86.Ar display
87to be one of:
88.Ic icmp ,
89.Ic iostat ,
90.Ic ip ,
91.Ic mbufs ,
92.Ic netstat ,
93.Ic pigs ,
94.Ic swap ,
95.Ic tcp ,
96or
97.Ic vmstat .
98These displays can also be requested interactively (without the
99.Dq Fl )
100and are described in
101full detail below.
102.It Ar refresh-interval
103The
104.Ar refresh-value
105specifies the screen refresh time interval in seconds.
106.El
107.Pp
108Certain characters cause immediate action by
109.Nm systat  .
110These are
111.Bl -tag -width Fl
112.It Ic \&^L
113Refresh the screen.
114.It Ic \&^G
115Print the name of the current ``display'' being shown in
116the lower window and the refresh interval.
117.It Ic \&^Z
118Stop
119.Nm systat  .
120.It Ic \&:
121Move the cursor to the command line and interpret the input
122line typed as a command.  While entering a command the
123current character erase, word erase, and line kill characters
124may be used.
125.El
126.Pp
127The following commands are interpreted by the ``global''
128command interpreter.
129.Bl -tag -width Fl
130.It Ic help
131Print the names of the available displays on the command line.
132.It Ic load
133Print the load average over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes
134on the command line.
135.It Ic stop
136Stop refreshing the screen.
137.It Xo
138.Op Ic start
139.Op Ar number
140.Xc
141Start (continue) refreshing the screen.  If a second, numeric,
142argument is provided it is interpreted as a refresh interval
143(in seconds).
144Supplying only a number will set the refresh interval to this
145value.
146.It Ic quit
147Exit
148.Nm systat  .
149(This may be abbreviated to
150.Ic q  . )
151.El
152.Pp
153The available displays are:
154.Bl -tag -width Ic
155.It Ic pigs
156Display, in the lower window, those processes resident in main
157memory and getting the
158largest portion of the processor (the default display).
159When less than 100% of the
160processor is scheduled to user processes, the remaining time
161is accounted to the ``idle'' process.
162.It Ic icmp
163Display, in the lower window, statistics about messages received and
164transmitted by the Internet Control Message Protocol
165.Pq Dq Tn ICMP .
166The left half of the screen displays information about received
167packets, and the right half displays information regarding transmitted
168packets.
169.Pp
170The
171.Ic icmp
172display understands two commands:
173.Ic mode
174and
175.Ic reset .
176The
177.Ic mode
178command is used to select one of four display modes, given as its argument:
179.Bl -tag -width absoluteXX -compact
180.It Ic rate :
181show the rate of change of each value in packets (the default)
182per second
183.It Ic delta :
184show the rate of change of each value in packets per refresh interval
185.It Ic since :
186show the total change of each value since the display was last reset
187.It Ic absolute :
188show the absolute value of each statistic
189.El
190.Pp
191The
192.Ic reset
193command resets the baseline for
194.Ic since
195mode.  The
196.Ic mode
197command with no argument will display the current mode in the command
198line.
199.It Ic ip
200Otherwise identical to the
201.Ic icmp
202display, except that it displays
203.Tn IP
204and
205.Tn UDP
206statistics.
207.It Ic tcp
208Like
209.Ic icmp ,
210but with
211.Tn TCP
212statistics.
213.It Ic iostat
214Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
215and disk throughput.  Statistics on processor use appear as
216bar graphs of the amount of time executing in user mode (``user''),
217in user mode running low priority processes (``nice''), in
218system mode (``system''), in interrupt mode (``interrupt''),
219and idle (``idle'').  Statistics
220on disk throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of data transferred,
221number of disk transactions performed, and average seek time
222(in milliseconds).  This information may be displayed as
223bar graphs or as rows of numbers which scroll downward.  Bar
224graphs are shown by default.
225.Pp
226The following commands are specific to the
227.Ic iostat
228display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
229.Pp
230.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
231.It Cm numbers
232Show the disk
233.Tn I/O
234statistics in numeric form.  Values are
235displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
236.It Cm bars
237Show the disk
238.Tn I/O
239statistics in bar graph form (default).
240.It Cm msps
241Toggle the display of average seek time (the default is to
242not display seek times).
243.El
244.It Ic swap
245Show information about swap space usage on all the
246swap areas compiled into the kernel.
247The first column is the device name of the partition.
248The next column is the total space available in the partition.
249The
250.Ar Used
251column indicates the total blocks used so far;
252the graph shows the percentage of space in use on each partition.
253If there are more than one swap partition in use,
254a total line is also shown.
255Areas known to the kernel, but not in use are shown as not available.
256.It Ic mbufs
257Display, in the lower window, the number of mbufs allocated
258for particular uses, i.e. data, socket structures, etc.
259.It Ic vmstat
260Take over the entire display and show a (rather crowded) compendium
261of statistics related to virtual memory usage, process scheduling,
262device interrupts, system name translation cacheing, disk
263.Tn I/O
264etc.
265.Pp
266The upper left quadrant of the screen shows the number
267of users logged in and the load average over the last one, five,
268and fifteen minute intervals.
269Below this line are statistics on memory utilization.
270The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
271active processes, that is processes that have run in the previous
272twenty seconds.
273The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
274The first column reports on the number of physical pages
275claimed by processes.
276The second column reports the number of physical pages that
277are devoted to read only text pages.
278The third and fourth columns report the same two figures for
279virtual pages, that is the number of pages that would be
280needed if all processes had all of their pages.
281Finally the last column shows the number of physical pages
282on the free list.
283.Pp
284Below the memory display is a list of the
285average number of processes (over the last refresh interval)
286that are runnable (`r'), in page wait (`p'),
287in disk wait other than paging (`d'),
288sleeping (`s'), and swapped out but desiring to run (`w').
289Below the queue length listing is a numerical listing and
290a bar graph showing the amount of
291system (shown as `='), interrupt (shown as `+'), user (shown as `>'),
292nice (shown as `-'), and idle time (shown as ` ').
293.Pp
294Below the process display are statistics on name translations.
295It lists the number of names translated in the previous interval,
296the number and percentage of the translations that were
297handled by the system wide name translation cache, and
298the number and percentage of the translations that were
299handled by the per process name translation cache.
300.Pp
301At the bottom left is the disk usage display.
302It reports the number of seeks, transfers, and number
303of kilobyte blocks transferred per second averaged over the
304refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds).
305For some disks it also reports the average milliseconds per seek.
306Note that the system only keeps statistics on at most eight disks
307(this is controlled by the constant
308.Dv DK_NDRIVE
309in
310.Aq Pa sys/dkstat.h
311as a kernel compile-time constant).
312.Pp
313Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
314on paging and swapping activity.
315The first two columns report the average number of pages
316brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
317due to page faults and the paging daemon.
318The third and fourth columns report the average number of pages
319brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
320due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.
321The first row of the display shows the average
322number of disk transfers per second over the last refresh interval;
323the second row of the display shows the average
324number of pages transferred per second over the last refresh interval.
325.Pp
326Below the paging statistics is a line listing the average number of
327total reclaims ('Rec'),
328intransit blocking page faults (`It'),
329swap text pages found in free list (`F/S'),
330file system text pages found in free list (`F/F'),
331reclaims from free list
332pages freed by the clock daemon (`Fre'),
333and sequential process pages freed (`SFr')
334per second over the refresh interval.
335.Pp
336Below this line are statistics on the average number of
337zero filled pages (`zf') and demand filled text pages (`xf')
338per second over the refresh period.
339The first row indicates the number of requests that were
340resolved, the second row shows the number that were set up,
341and the last row shows the percentage of setup requests that were
342actually used.
343Note that this percentage is usually less than 100%,
344however it may exceed 100% if a large number of requests
345are actually used long after they were set up during a
346period when no new pages are being set up.
347Thus this figure is most interesting when observed over
348a long time period, such as from boot time
349(see below on getting such a display).
350.Pp
351Below the page fill statistics is a column that
352lists the average number of context switches (`Csw'),
353traps (`Trp'; includes page faults), system calls (`Sys'), interrupts (`Int'),
354characters output to DZ ports using
355.No pseudo Ns -DMA
356(`Pdm'),
357network software interrupts (`Sof'),
358page faults (`Flt'), pages scanned by the page daemon (`Scn'),
359and revolutions of the page daemon's hand (`Rev')
360per second over the refresh interval.
361.Pp
362Running down the right hand side of the display is a breakdown
363of the interrupts being handled by the system.
364At the top of the list is the total interrupts per second
365over the time interval.
366The rest of the column breaks down the total on a device
367by device basis.
368Only devices that have interrupted at least once since boot time are shown.
369.Pp
370The following commands are specific to the
371.Ic vmstat
372display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
373.Pp
374.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
375.It Cm boot
376Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.
377.It Cm run
378Display statistics as a running total from the point this
379command is given.
380.It Cm time
381Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the default).
382.It Cm zero
383Reset running statistics to zero.
384.El
385.It Ic netstat
386Display, in the lower window, network connections.  By default,
387network servers awaiting requests are not displayed.  Each address
388is displayed in the format ``host.port'', with each shown symbolically,
389when possible.  It is possible to have addresses displayed numerically,
390limit the display to a set of ports, hosts, and/or protocols
391(the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied):
392.Pp
393.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
394.It Cm all
395Toggle the displaying of server processes awaiting requests (this
396is the equivalent of the
397.Fl a
398flag to
399.Ar netstat  1  ) .
400.It Cm numbers
401Display network addresses numerically.
402.It Cm names
403Display network addresses symbolically.
404.It Ar protocol
405Display only network connections using the indicated protocol
406(currently either ``tcp'' or ``udp'').
407.It Cm ignore Op Ar items
408Do not display information about connections associated with
409the specified hosts or ports.  Hosts and ports may be specified
410by name (``vangogh'', ``ftp''), or numerically.  Host addresses
411use the Internet dot notation (``128.32.0.9'').  Multiple items
412may be specified with a single command by separating them with
413spaces.
414.It Cm display Op Ar items
415Display information about the connections associated with the
416specified hosts or ports.  As for
417.Ar ignore  ,
418.Op Ar items
419may be names or numbers.
420.It Cm show Op Ar ports\&|hosts
421Show, on the command line, the currently selected protocols,
422hosts, and ports.  Hosts and ports which are being ignored
423are prefixed with a `!'.  If
424.Ar ports
425or
426.Ar hosts
427is supplied as an argument to
428.Cm show  ,
429then only the requested information will be displayed.
430.It Cm reset
431Reset the port, host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the default
432(any protocol, port, or host).
433.El
434.El
435.Pp
436Commands to switch between displays may be abbreviated to the
437minimum unambiguous prefix; for example, ``io'' for ``iostat''.
438Certain information may be discarded when the screen size is
439insufficient for display.  For example, on a machine with 10
440drives the
441.Ic iostat
442bar graph displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.  When
443a bar graph would overflow the allotted screen space it is
444truncated and the actual value is printed ``over top'' of the bar.
445.Pp
446The following commands are common to each display which shows
447information about disk drives.  These commands are used to
448select a set of drives to report on, should your system have
449more drives configured than can normally be displayed on the
450screen.
451.Pp
452.Bl -tag -width Tx -compact
453.It Cm ignore Op Ar drives
454Do not display information about the drives indicated.  Multiple
455drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
456.It Cm display Op Ar drives
457Display information about the drives indicated.  Multiple drives
458may be specified, separated by spaces.
459.El
460.Sh SEE ALSO
461.Xr iostat 1 ,
462.Xr netstat 1 ,
463.Xr vmstat 1 ,
464.Xr icmp 4 ,
465.Xr ip 4 ,
466.Xr tcp 4 ,
467.Xr udp 4
468.Sh FILES
469.Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
470.It Pa /kernel
471For the namelist.
472.It Pa /dev/kmem
473For information in main memory.
474.It Pa /dev/drum
475For information about swapped out processes.
476.It Pa /etc/hosts
477For host names.
478.It Pa /etc/networks
479For network names.
480.It Pa /etc/services
481For port names.
482.El
483.Sh HISTORY
484The
485.Nm
486program appeared in
487.Bx 4.3 .
488The
489.Ic icmp ,
490.Ic ip ,
491and
492.Ic tcp
493displays appeared in
494.Fx 3.0 ;
495the notion of having different display modes for the
496.Tn ICMP ,
497.Tn IP
498.Tn TCP ,
499and
500.Tn UDP
501statistics was stolen from the
502.Fl C
503option to
504.Xr netstat 1
505in Silicon Graphics'
506.Tn IRIX
507system.
508.Sh BUGS
509Takes 2-10 percent of the cpu.
510Certain displays presume a minimum of 80 characters per line.
511The
512.Ic vmstat
513display looks out of place because it is (it was added in as
514a separate display rather than created as a new program).
515