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35.Dd September 9, 1997
36.Dt SYSTAT 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm systat
40.Nd display system statistics on a crt
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl display
44.Op Ar refresh-interval
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility displays various system statistics in a screen oriented fashion
49using the curses screen display library,
50.Xr ncurses 3 .
51.Pp
52While
53.Nm
54is running the screen is usually divided into two windows (an exception
55is the vmstat display which uses the entire screen).  The
56upper window depicts the current system load average.  The
57information displayed in the lower window may vary, depending on
58user commands.  The last line on the screen is reserved for user
59input and error messages.
60.Pp
61By default
62.Nm
63displays the processes getting the largest percentage of the processor
64in the lower window.  Other displays show swap space usage, disk
65.Tn I/O
66statistics (a la
67.Xr iostat  8  ) ,
68virtual memory statistics (a la
69.Xr vmstat  8  ) ,
70network ``mbuf'' utilization,
71.Tn TCP/IP
72statistics,
73and network connections (a la
74.Xr netstat  1  ) .
75.Pp
76Input is interpreted at two different levels.
77A ``global'' command interpreter processes all keyboard input.
78If this command interpreter fails to recognize a command, the
79input line is passed to a per-display command interpreter.  This
80allows each display to have certain display-specific commands.
81.Pp
82Command line options:
83.Bl -tag -width "refresh_interval"
84.It Fl Ns Ar display
85The
86.Fl
87flag expects
88.Ar display
89to be one of:
90.Ic icmp ,
91.Ic iostat ,
92.Ic ip ,
93.Ic mbufs ,
94.Ic netstat ,
95.Ic pigs ,
96.Ic swap ,
97.Ic tcp ,
98or
99.Ic vmstat .
100These displays can also be requested interactively (without the
101.Dq Fl )
102and are described in
103full detail below.
104.It Ar refresh-interval
105The
106.Ar refresh-value
107specifies the screen refresh time interval in seconds.
108.El
109.Pp
110Certain characters cause immediate action by
111.Nm .
112These are
113.Bl -tag -width Fl
114.It Ic \&^L
115Refresh the screen.
116.It Ic \&^G
117Print the name of the current ``display'' being shown in
118the lower window and the refresh interval.
119.It Ic \&^Z
120Stop
121.Nm .
122.It Ic \&:
123Move the cursor to the command line and interpret the input
124line typed as a command.  While entering a command the
125current character erase, word erase, and line kill characters
126may be used.
127.El
128.Pp
129The following commands are interpreted by the ``global''
130command interpreter.
131.Bl -tag -width Fl
132.It Ic help
133Print the names of the available displays on the command line.
134.It Ic load
135Print the load average over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes
136on the command line.
137.It Ic stop
138Stop refreshing the screen.
139.It Xo
140.Op Ic start
141.Op Ar number
142.Xc
143Start (continue) refreshing the screen.  If a second, numeric,
144argument is provided it is interpreted as a refresh interval
145(in seconds).
146Supplying only a number will set the refresh interval to this
147value.
148.It Ic quit
149Exit
150.Nm .
151(This may be abbreviated to
152.Ic q  . )
153.El
154.Pp
155The available displays are:
156.Bl -tag -width Ic
157.It Ic pigs
158Display, in the lower window, those processes resident in main
159memory and getting the
160largest portion of the processor (the default display).
161When less than 100% of the
162processor is scheduled to user processes, the remaining time
163is accounted to the ``idle'' process.
164.It Ic icmp
165Display, in the lower window, statistics about messages received and
166transmitted by the Internet Control Message Protocol
167.Pq Dq Tn ICMP .
168The left half of the screen displays information about received
169packets, and the right half displays information regarding transmitted
170packets.
171.Pp
172The
173.Ic icmp
174display understands two commands:
175.Ic mode
176and
177.Ic reset .
178The
179.Ic mode
180command is used to select one of four display modes, given as its argument:
181.Bl -tag -width absoluteXX -compact
182.It Ic rate :
183show the rate of change of each value in packets (the default)
184per second
185.It Ic delta :
186show the rate of change of each value in packets per refresh interval
187.It Ic since :
188show the total change of each value since the display was last reset
189.It Ic absolute :
190show the absolute value of each statistic
191.El
192.Pp
193The
194.Ic reset
195command resets the baseline for
196.Ic since
197mode.  The
198.Ic mode
199command with no argument will display the current mode in the command
200line.
201.It Ic ip
202Otherwise identical to the
203.Ic icmp
204display, except that it displays
205.Tn IP
206and
207.Tn UDP
208statistics.
209.It Ic tcp
210Like
211.Ic icmp ,
212but with
213.Tn TCP
214statistics.
215.It Ic iostat
216Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
217and disk throughput.  Statistics on processor use appear as
218bar graphs of the amount of time executing in user mode (``user''),
219in user mode running low priority processes (``nice''), in
220system mode (``system''), in interrupt mode (``interrupt''),
221and idle (``idle'').  Statistics
222on disk throughput show, for each drive, megabytes per second,
223average number of disk transactions per second, and
224average kilobytes of data per transaction.  This information may be
225displayed as bar graphs or as rows of numbers which scroll downward.  Bar
226graphs are shown by default.
227.Pp
228The following commands are specific to the
229.Ic iostat
230display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
231.Pp
232.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
233.It Cm numbers
234Show the disk
235.Tn I/O
236statistics in numeric form.  Values are
237displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
238.It Cm bars
239Show the disk
240.Tn I/O
241statistics in bar graph form (default).
242.It Cm kbpt
243Toggle the display of kilobytes per transaction.
244(the default is to
245not display kilobytes per transaction).
246.El
247.It Ic swap
248Show information about swap space usage on all the
249swap areas compiled into the kernel.
250The first column is the device name of the partition.
251The next column is the total space available in the partition.
252The
253.Ar Used
254column indicates the total blocks used so far;
255the graph shows the percentage of space in use on each partition.
256If there are more than one swap partition in use,
257a total line is also shown.
258Areas known to the kernel, but not in use are shown as not available.
259.It Ic mbufs
260Display, in the lower window, the number of mbufs allocated
261for particular uses, i.e. data, socket structures, etc.
262.It Ic vmstat
263Take over the entire display and show a (rather crowded) compendium
264of statistics related to virtual memory usage, process scheduling,
265device interrupts, system name translation cacheing, disk
266.Tn I/O
267etc.
268.Pp
269The upper left quadrant of the screen shows the number
270of users logged in and the load average over the last one, five,
271and fifteen minute intervals.
272Below this line are statistics on memory utilization.
273The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
274active processes, that is processes that have run in the previous
275twenty seconds.
276The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
277The first column reports on the number of physical pages
278claimed by processes.
279The second column reports the number of physical pages that
280are devoted to read only text pages.
281The third and fourth columns report the same two figures for
282virtual pages, that is the number of pages that would be
283needed if all processes had all of their pages.
284Finally the last column shows the number of physical pages
285on the free list.
286.Pp
287Below the memory display is a list of the
288average number of processes (over the last refresh interval)
289that are runnable (`r'), in page wait (`p'),
290in disk wait other than paging (`d'),
291sleeping (`s'), and swapped out but desiring to run (`w').
292The row also shows the average number of context switches
293(`Csw'), traps (`Trp'; includes page faults), system calls (`Sys'),
294interrupts (`Int'), network software interrupts (`Sof'), and page
295faults (`Flt').
296.Pp
297Below the process queue length listing is a numerical listing and
298a bar graph showing the amount of
299system (shown as `='), interrupt (shown as `+'), user (shown as `>'),
300nice (shown as `-'), and idle time (shown as ` ').
301.Pp
302Below the process display are statistics on name translations.
303It lists the number of names translated in the previous interval,
304the number and percentage of the translations that were
305handled by the system wide name translation cache, and
306the number and percentage of the translations that were
307handled by the per process name translation cache.
308.Pp
309At the bottom left is the disk usage display.
310It reports the number of
311kilobytes per transaction, transactions per second, megabytes
312per second and the percentage of the time the disk was busy averaged
313over the refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds).
314The system keeps statistics on most every storage device.  In general, up
315to seven devices are displayed.  The devices displayed by default are the
316first devices in the kernel's device list.  See
317.Xr devstat 3
318and
319.Xr devstat 9
320for details on the devstat system.
321.Pp
322Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
323on paging and swapping activity.
324The first two columns report the average number of pages
325brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
326due to page faults and the paging daemon.
327The third and fourth columns report the average number of pages
328brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
329due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.
330The first row of the display shows the average
331number of disk transfers per second over the last refresh interval;
332the second row of the display shows the average
333number of pages transferred per second over the last refresh interval.
334.Pp
335Below the paging statistics is a column of lines regarding the virtual
336memory system which list the average number of
337pages copied on write (`cow'),
338pages zero filled on demand (`zfod'),
339slow (on-the-fly) zero fills percentage (`%slo-z'),
340pages wired down (`wire'),
341active pages (`act'),
342inactive pages (`inact'),
343pages on the buffer cache queue (`cache'),
344number of free pages (`free'),
345pages freed by the page daemon (`daefr'),
346pages freed by exiting processes (`prcfr'),
347pages reactivated from the free list (`react'),
348times the page daemon was awakened (`pdwak'),
349pages analyzed by the page daemon (`pdpgs'),
350and
351intransit blocking page faults (`intrn')
352per second over the refresh interval.
353.Pp
354At the bottom of this column are lines showing the
355amount of memory, in kilobytes, used for the buffer cache (`buf'),
356the number of dirty buffers in the buffer cache (`dirtybuf'),
357desired maximum size of vnode cache (`desiredvnodes') (mostly unused,
358except to size the name cache),
359number of vnodes actually allocated (`numvnodes'),
360and
361number of allocated vnodes that are free (`freevnodes').
362.Pp
363Running down the right hand side of the display is a breakdown
364of the interrupts being handled by the system.
365At the top of the list is the total interrupts per second
366over the time interval.
367The rest of the column breaks down the total on a device
368by device basis.
369Only devices that have interrupted at least once since boot time are shown.
370.Pp
371The following commands are specific to the
372.Ic vmstat
373display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
374.Pp
375.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
376.It Cm boot
377Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.
378.It Cm run
379Display statistics as a running total from the point this
380command is given.
381.It Cm time
382Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the default).
383.It Cm want_fd
384Toggle the display of fd devices in the disk usage display.
385.It Cm zero
386Reset running statistics to zero.
387.El
388.It Ic netstat
389Display, in the lower window, network connections.  By default,
390network servers awaiting requests are not displayed.  Each address
391is displayed in the format ``host.port'', with each shown symbolically,
392when possible.  It is possible to have addresses displayed numerically,
393limit the display to a set of ports, hosts, and/or protocols
394(the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied):
395.Pp
396.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
397.It Cm all
398Toggle the displaying of server processes awaiting requests (this
399is the equivalent of the
400.Fl a
401flag to
402.Xr netstat 1 ) .
403.It Cm numbers
404Display network addresses numerically.
405.It Cm names
406Display network addresses symbolically.
407.It Cm proto Ar protocol
408Display only network connections using the indicated
409.Ar protocol .
410Supported protocols are ``tcp'', ``udp'', and ``all''.
411.It Cm ignore Op Ar items
412Do not display information about connections associated with
413the specified hosts or ports.  Hosts and ports may be specified
414by name (``vangogh'', ``ftp''), or numerically.  Host addresses
415use the Internet dot notation (``128.32.0.9'').  Multiple items
416may be specified with a single command by separating them with
417spaces.
418.It Cm display Op Ar items
419Display information about the connections associated with the
420specified hosts or ports.  As for
421.Ar ignore  ,
422.Op Ar items
423may be names or numbers.
424.It Cm show Op Ar ports\&|hosts
425Show, on the command line, the currently selected protocols,
426hosts, and ports.  Hosts and ports which are being ignored
427are prefixed with a `!'.  If
428.Ar ports
429or
430.Ar hosts
431is supplied as an argument to
432.Cm show  ,
433then only the requested information will be displayed.
434.It Cm reset
435Reset the port, host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the default
436(any protocol, port, or host).
437.El
438.El
439.Pp
440Commands to switch between displays may be abbreviated to the
441minimum unambiguous prefix; for example, ``io'' for ``iostat''.
442Certain information may be discarded when the screen size is
443insufficient for display.  For example, on a machine with 10
444drives the
445.Ic iostat
446bar graph displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.  When
447a bar graph would overflow the allotted screen space it is
448truncated and the actual value is printed ``over top'' of the bar.
449.Pp
450The following commands are common to each display which shows
451information about disk drives.  These commands are used to
452select a set of drives to report on, should your system have
453more drives configured than can normally be displayed on the
454screen.
455.Pp
456.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
457.It Cm ignore Op Ar drives
458Do not display information about the drives indicated.  Multiple
459drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
460.It Cm display Op Ar drives
461Display information about the drives indicated.  Multiple drives
462may be specified, separated by spaces.
463.It Cm only Op Ar drives
464Display only the specified drives.  Multiple drives may be specified,
465separated by spaces.
466.It Cm drives
467Display a list of available devices.
468.It Cm match Xo
469.Ar type , Ns Ar if , Ns Ar pass
470.Op | Ar ...
471.Xc
472Display devivces matching the given pattern.  The basic matching
473expressions are the same as those used in
474.Xr iostat 8
475with one difference.  Instead of specifying multiple
476.Fl t
477arguments which are then ORed together, the user instead specifys multiple
478matching expressions joined by the pipe
479.Pq Ql \&|
480character.
481The comma
482separated arguments within each matching expression are ANDed together, and
483then the pipe separated matching expressions are ORed together.  Any
484device matching the combined expression will be displayed, if there is room
485to display it.  For example:
486.Pp
487.Dl match da,scsi | cd,ide
488.Pp
489This will display all SCSI Direct Access devices and all IDE CDROM devices.
490.Pp
491.Dl match da | sa | cd,pass
492.Pp
493This will display all Direct Access devices, all Sequential Access devices,
494and all passthrough devices that provide access to CDROM drives.
495.El
496.Sh SEE ALSO
497.Xr netstat 1 ,
498.Xr kvm 3 ,
499.Xr icmp 4 ,
500.Xr ip 4 ,
501.Xr tcp 4 ,
502.Xr udp 4 ,
503.Xr iostat 8 ,
504.Xr vmstat 8
505.Sh FILES
506.Bl -tag -width /boot/kernel/kernel -compact
507.It Pa /boot/kernel/kernel
508For the namelist.
509.It Pa /dev/kmem
510For information in main memory.
511.It Pa /etc/hosts
512For host names.
513.It Pa /etc/networks
514For network names.
515.It Pa /etc/services
516For port names.
517.El
518.Sh HISTORY
519The
520.Nm
521program appeared in
522.Bx 4.3 .
523The
524.Ic icmp ,
525.Ic ip ,
526and
527.Ic tcp
528displays appeared in
529.Fx 3.0 ;
530the notion of having different display modes for the
531.Tn ICMP ,
532.Tn IP ,
533.Tn TCP ,
534and
535.Tn UDP
536statistics was stolen from the
537.Fl C
538option to
539.Xr netstat 1
540in Silicon Graphics'
541.Tn IRIX
542system.
543.Sh BUGS
544Certain displays presume a minimum of 80 characters per line.
545The
546.Ic vmstat
547display looks out of place because it is (it was added in as
548a separate display rather than created as a new program).
549