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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).
56The
57upper window depicts the current system load average.
58The
59information displayed in the lower window may vary, depending on
60user commands.
61The last line on the screen is reserved for user
62input and error messages.
63.Pp
64By default
65.Nm
66displays the processes getting the largest percentage of the processor
67in the lower window.
68Other displays show swap space usage, disk
69.Tn I/O
70statistics (a la
71.Xr iostat 8 ) ,
72virtual memory statistics (a la
73.Xr vmstat 8 ) ,
74network ``mbuf'' utilization,
75.Tn TCP/IP
76statistics,
77and network connections (a la
78.Xr netstat 1 ) .
79.Pp
80Input is interpreted at two different levels.
81A ``global'' command interpreter processes all keyboard input.
82If this command interpreter fails to recognize a command, the
83input line is passed to a per-display command interpreter.
84This
85allows each display to have certain display-specific commands.
86.Pp
87Command line options:
88.Bl -tag -width "refresh_interval"
89.It Fl Ns Ar display
90The
91.Fl
92flag expects
93.Ar display
94to be one of:
95.Ic icmp ,
96.Ic icmp6 ,
97.Ic ifstat ,
98.Ic iostat ,
99.Ic ip ,
100.Ic ip6 ,
101.Ic mbufs ,
102.Ic netstat ,
103.Ic pigs ,
104.Ic swap ,
105.Ic tcp ,
106or
107.Ic vmstat .
108These displays can also be requested interactively (without the
109.Dq Fl )
110and are described in
111full detail below.
112.It Ar refresh-interval
113The
114.Ar refresh-value
115specifies the screen refresh time interval in seconds.
116.El
117.Pp
118Certain characters cause immediate action by
119.Nm .
120These are
121.Bl -tag -width Fl
122.It Ic \&^L
123Refresh the screen.
124.It Ic \&^G
125Print the name of the current ``display'' being shown in
126the lower window and the refresh interval.
127.It Ic \&:
128Move the cursor to the command line and interpret the input
129line typed as a command.
130While entering a command the
131current character erase, word erase, and line kill characters
132may be used.
133.El
134.Pp
135The following commands are interpreted by the ``global''
136command interpreter.
137.Bl -tag -width Fl
138.It Ic help
139Print the names of the available displays on the command line.
140.It Ic load
141Print the load average over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes
142on the command line.
143.It Ic stop
144Stop refreshing the screen.
145.It Xo
146.Op Ic start
147.Op Ar number
148.Xc
149Start (continue) refreshing the screen.
150If a second, numeric,
151argument is provided it is interpreted as a refresh interval
152(in seconds).
153Supplying only a number will set the refresh interval to this
154value.
155.It Ic quit
156Exit
157.Nm .
158(This may be abbreviated to
159.Ic q . )
160.El
161.Pp
162The available displays are:
163.Bl -tag -width Ic
164.It Ic pigs
165Display, in the lower window, those processes resident in main
166memory and getting the
167largest portion of the processor (the default display).
168When less than 100% of the
169processor is scheduled to user processes, the remaining time
170is accounted to the ``idle'' process.
171.It Ic icmp
172Display, in the lower window, statistics about messages received and
173transmitted by the Internet Control Message Protocol
174.Pq Dq Tn ICMP .
175The left half of the screen displays information about received
176packets, and the right half displays information regarding transmitted
177packets.
178.Pp
179The
180.Ic icmp
181display understands two commands:
182.Ic mode
183and
184.Ic reset .
185The
186.Ic mode
187command is used to select one of four display modes, given as its argument:
188.Bl -tag -width absoluteXX -compact
189.It Ic rate :
190show the rate of change of each value in packets (the default)
191per second
192.It Ic delta :
193show the rate of change of each value in packets per refresh interval
194.It Ic since :
195show the total change of each value since the display was last reset
196.It Ic absolute :
197show the absolute value of each statistic
198.El
199.Pp
200The
201.Ic reset
202command resets the baseline for
203.Ic since
204mode.
205The
206.Ic mode
207command with no argument will display the current mode in the command
208line.
209.It Ic icmp6
210This display is like the
211.Ic icmp
212display,
213but displays statistics for IPv6 ICMP.
214.It Ic ip
215Otherwise identical to the
216.Ic icmp
217display, except that it displays
218.Tn IP
219and
220.Tn UDP
221statistics.
222.It Ic ip6
223Like the
224.Ic ip
225display,
226except that it displays
227.Tn IPv6
228statics.
229It does not display
230.Tn UDP statistics.
231.It Ic tcp
232Like
233.Ic icmp ,
234but with
235.Tn TCP
236statistics.
237.It Ic iostat
238Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
239and disk throughput.
240Statistics on processor use appear as
241bar graphs of the amount of time executing in user mode (``user''),
242in user mode running low priority processes (``nice''), in
243system mode (``system''), in interrupt mode (``interrupt''),
244and idle (``idle'').
245Statistics
246on disk throughput show, for each drive, megabytes per second,
247average number of disk transactions per second, and
248average kilobytes of data per transaction.
249This information may be
250displayed as bar graphs or as rows of numbers which scroll downward.
251Bar
252graphs are shown by default.
253.Pp
254The following commands are specific to the
255.Ic iostat
256display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
257.Pp
258.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
259.It Cm numbers
260Show the disk
261.Tn I/O
262statistics in numeric form.
263Values are
264displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
265.It Cm bars
266Show the disk
267.Tn I/O
268statistics in bar graph form (default).
269.It Cm kbpt
270Toggle the display of kilobytes per transaction.
271(the default is to
272not display kilobytes per transaction).
273.El
274.It Ic swap
275Show information about swap space usage on all the
276swap areas compiled into the kernel.
277The first column is the device name of the partition.
278The next column is the total space available in the partition.
279The
280.Ar Used
281column indicates the total blocks used so far;
282the graph shows the percentage of space in use on each partition.
283If there are more than one swap partition in use,
284a total line is also shown.
285Areas known to the kernel, but not in use are shown as not available.
286.It Ic mbufs
287Display, in the lower window, the number of mbufs allocated
288for particular uses, i.e., data, socket structures, etc.
289.It Ic vmstat
290Take over the entire display and show a (rather crowded) compendium
291of statistics related to virtual memory usage, process scheduling,
292device interrupts, system name translation cacheing, disk
293.Tn I/O
294etc.
295.Pp
296The upper left quadrant of the screen shows the number
297of users logged in and the load average over the last one, five,
298and fifteen minute intervals.
299Below this line are statistics on memory utilization.
300The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
301active processes, that is processes that have run in the previous
302twenty seconds.
303The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
304The first column reports on the number of physical pages
305claimed by processes.
306The second column reports the number of physical pages that
307are devoted to read only text pages.
308The third and fourth columns report the same two figures for
309virtual pages, that is the number of pages that would be
310needed if all processes had all of their pages.
311Finally the last column shows the number of physical pages
312on the free list.
313.Pp
314Below the memory display is a list of the
315average number of processes (over the last refresh interval)
316that are runnable (`r'), in page wait (`p'),
317in disk wait other than paging (`d'),
318sleeping (`s'), and swapped out but desiring to run (`w').
319The row also shows the average number of context switches
320(`Csw'), traps (`Trp'; includes page faults), system calls (`Sys'),
321interrupts (`Int'), network software interrupts (`Sof'), and page
322faults (`Flt').
323.Pp
324Below the process queue length listing is a numerical listing and
325a bar graph showing the amount of
326system (shown as `='), interrupt (shown as `+'), user (shown as `>'),
327nice (shown as `-'), and idle time (shown as ` ').
328.Pp
329Below the process display are statistics on name translations.
330It lists the number of names translated in the previous interval,
331the number and percentage of the translations that were
332handled by the system wide name translation cache, and
333the number and percentage of the translations that were
334handled by the per process name translation cache.
335.Pp
336At the bottom left is the disk usage display.
337It reports the number of
338kilobytes per transaction, transactions per second, megabytes
339per second and the percentage of the time the disk was busy averaged
340over the refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds).
341The system keeps statistics on most every storage device.
342In general, up
343to seven devices are displayed.
344The devices displayed by default are the
345first devices in the kernel's device list.
346See
347.Xr devstat 3
348and
349.Xr devstat 9
350for details on the devstat system.
351.Pp
352Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
353on paging and swapping activity.
354The first two columns report the average number of pages
355brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
356due to page faults and the paging daemon.
357The third and fourth columns report the average number of pages
358brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
359due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.
360The first row of the display shows the average
361number of disk transfers per second over the last refresh interval;
362the second row of the display shows the average
363number of pages transferred per second over the last refresh interval.
364.Pp
365Below the paging statistics is a column of lines regarding the virtual
366memory system which list the average number of
367pages copied on write (`cow'),
368pages zero filled on demand (`zfod'),
369slow (on-the-fly) zero fills percentage (`%slo-z'),
370pages wired down (`wire'),
371active pages (`act'),
372inactive pages (`inact'),
373pages on the buffer cache queue (`cache'),
374number of free pages (`free'),
375pages freed by the page daemon (`daefr'),
376pages freed by exiting processes (`prcfr'),
377pages reactivated from the free list (`react'),
378times the page daemon was awakened (`pdwak'),
379pages analyzed by the page daemon (`pdpgs'),
380and
381intransit blocking page faults (`intrn')
382per second over the refresh interval.
383.Pp
384At the bottom of this column are lines showing the
385amount of memory, in kilobytes, used for the buffer cache (`buf'),
386the number of dirty buffers in the buffer cache (`dirtybuf'),
387desired maximum size of vnode cache (`desiredvnodes') (mostly unused,
388except to size the name cache),
389number of vnodes actually allocated (`numvnodes'),
390and
391number of allocated vnodes that are free (`freevnodes').
392.Pp
393Running down the right hand side of the display is a breakdown
394of the interrupts being handled by the system.
395At the top of the list is the total interrupts per second
396over the time interval.
397The rest of the column breaks down the total on a device
398by device basis.
399Only devices that have interrupted at least once since boot time are shown.
400.Pp
401The following commands are specific to the
402.Ic vmstat
403display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
404.Pp
405.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
406.It Cm boot
407Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.
408.It Cm run
409Display statistics as a running total from the point this
410command is given.
411.It Cm time
412Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the default).
413.It Cm want_fd
414Toggle the display of fd devices in the disk usage display.
415.It Cm zero
416Reset running statistics to zero.
417.El
418.It Ic netstat
419Display, in the lower window, network connections.
420By default,
421network servers awaiting requests are not displayed.
422Each address
423is displayed in the format ``host.port'', with each shown symbolically,
424when possible.
425It is possible to have addresses displayed numerically,
426limit the display to a set of ports, hosts, and/or protocols
427(the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied):
428.Pp
429.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
430.It Cm all
431Toggle the displaying of server processes awaiting requests (this
432is the equivalent of the
433.Fl a
434flag to
435.Xr netstat 1 ) .
436.It Cm numbers
437Display network addresses numerically.
438.It Cm names
439Display network addresses symbolically.
440.It Cm proto Ar protocol
441Display only network connections using the indicated
442.Ar protocol .
443Supported protocols are ``tcp'', ``udp'', and ``all''.
444.It Cm ignore Op Ar items
445Do not display information about connections associated with
446the specified hosts or ports.
447Hosts and ports may be specified
448by name (``vangogh'', ``ftp''), or numerically.
449Host addresses
450use the Internet dot notation (``128.32.0.9'').
451Multiple items
452may be specified with a single command by separating them with
453spaces.
454.It Cm display Op Ar items
455Display information about the connections associated with the
456specified hosts or ports.
457As for
458.Ar ignore ,
459.Op Ar items
460may be names or numbers.
461.It Cm show Op Ar ports\&|hosts
462Show, on the command line, the currently selected protocols,
463hosts, and ports.
464Hosts and ports which are being ignored
465are prefixed with a `!'.
466If
467.Ar ports
468or
469.Ar hosts
470is supplied as an argument to
471.Cm show ,
472then only the requested information will be displayed.
473.It Cm reset
474Reset the port, host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the default
475(any protocol, port, or host).
476.El
477.It Ic ifstat
478Display the network traffic going through active interfaces on the
479system.
480Idle interfaces will not be displayed until they receive some
481traffic.
482.Pp
483For each interface being displayed, the current, peak and total
484statistics are displayed for incoming and outgoing traffic.
485By default,
486the
487.Ic ifstat
488display will automatically scale the units being used so that they are
489in a human-readable format.
490The scaling units used for the current and
491peak
492traffic columns can be altered by the
493.Ic scale
494command.
495.Bl -tag -width ".Cm scale Op Ar units"
496.It Cm scale Op Ar units
497Modify the scale used to display the current and peak traffic over all
498interfaces.
499The following units are recognised: kbit, kbyte, mbit,
500mbyte, gbit, gbyte and auto.
501.El
502.El
503.Pp
504Commands to switch between displays may be abbreviated to the
505minimum unambiguous prefix; for example, ``io'' for ``iostat''.
506Certain information may be discarded when the screen size is
507insufficient for display.
508For example, on a machine with 10
509drives the
510.Ic iostat
511bar graph displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.
512When
513a bar graph would overflow the allotted screen space it is
514truncated and the actual value is printed ``over top'' of the bar.
515.Pp
516The following commands are common to each display which shows
517information about disk drives.
518These commands are used to
519select a set of drives to report on, should your system have
520more drives configured than can normally be displayed on the
521screen.
522.Pp
523.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
524.It Cm ignore Op Ar drives
525Do not display information about the drives indicated.
526Multiple
527drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
528.It Cm display Op Ar drives
529Display information about the drives indicated.
530Multiple drives
531may be specified, separated by spaces.
532.It Cm only Op Ar drives
533Display only the specified drives.
534Multiple drives may be specified,
535separated by spaces.
536.It Cm drives
537Display a list of available devices.
538.It Cm match Xo
539.Ar type , Ns Ar if , Ns Ar pass
540.Op | Ar ...
541.Xc
542Display devices matching the given pattern.
543The basic matching
544expressions are the same as those used in
545.Xr iostat 8
546with one difference.
547Instead of specifying multiple
548.Fl t
549arguments which are then ORed together, the user instead specifies multiple
550matching expressions joined by the pipe
551.Pq Ql \&|
552character.
553The comma
554separated arguments within each matching expression are ANDed together, and
555then the pipe separated matching expressions are ORed together.
556Any
557device matching the combined expression will be displayed, if there is room
558to display it.
559For example:
560.Pp
561.Dl match da,scsi | cd,ide
562.Pp
563This will display all SCSI Direct Access devices and all IDE CDROM devices.
564.Pp
565.Dl match da | sa | cd,pass
566.Pp
567This will display all Direct Access devices, all Sequential Access devices,
568and all passthrough devices that provide access to CDROM drives.
569.El
570.Sh FILES
571.Bl -tag -width /boot/kernel/kernel -compact
572.It Pa /boot/kernel/kernel
573For the namelist.
574.It Pa /dev/kmem
575For information in main memory.
576.It Pa /etc/hosts
577For host names.
578.It Pa /etc/networks
579For network names.
580.It Pa /etc/services
581For port names.
582.El
583.Sh SEE ALSO
584.Xr netstat 1 ,
585.Xr kvm 3 ,
586.Xr icmp 4 ,
587.Xr icmp6 4 ,
588.Xr ip 4 ,
589.Xr ip6 4 ,
590.Xr tcp 4 ,
591.Xr udp 4 ,
592.Xr iostat 8 ,
593.Xr vmstat 8
594.Sh HISTORY
595The
596.Nm
597program appeared in
598.Bx 4.3 .
599The
600.Ic icmp ,
601.Ic ip ,
602and
603.Ic tcp
604displays appeared in
605.Fx 3.0 ;
606the notion of having different display modes for the
607.Tn ICMP ,
608.Tn IP ,
609.Tn TCP ,
610and
611.Tn UDP
612statistics was stolen from the
613.Fl C
614option to
615.Xr netstat 1
616in Silicon Graphics'
617.Tn IRIX
618system.
619.Sh BUGS
620Certain displays presume a minimum of 80 characters per line.
621The
622.Ic vmstat
623display looks out of place because it is (it was added in as
624a separate display rather than created as a new program).
625