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32.Dd December 26, 2018
33.Dt SYSTAT 1
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm systat
37.Nd display system statistics in a full-screen view
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm
40.Op Fl bn
41.Op Fl M Ar core
42.Op Fl N Ar system
43.Op Fl t Ar turns
44.Op Fl w Ar wait
45.Op Ar display
46.Op Ar refresh-interval
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48.Nm
49displays various system statistics in a screen oriented fashion
50using the curses screen display library,
51.Xr curses 3 .
52.Pp
53While
54.Nm
55is running the screen is usually divided into two windows (an exception
56is the vmstat display which uses the entire screen).
57The upper window depicts the current system load average.
58The information displayed in the lower window may vary, depending on
59user commands.
60The last line on the screen is reserved for user input and error messages.
61.Pp
62By default
63.Nm
64displays the processes getting the largest percentage of the processor
65in the lower window.
66Other displays show more detailed process information,
67swap space usage,
68disk usage statistics (a la
69.Xr df 1 ) ,
70disk I/O statistics (a la
71.Xr iostat 8 ) ,
72virtual memory statistics (a la
73.Xr vmstat 1 ) ,
74network ``mbuf'' utilization, network 'ifstat' traffic, and network connections (a la
75.Xr netstat 1 ) .
76.Pp
77Input is interpreted at two different levels.
78A ``global'' command interpreter processes all keyboard input.
79If this command interpreter fails to recognize a command, the
80input line is passed to a per-display command interpreter.
81This allows each display to have certain display-specific commands.
82.Pp
83Command line options:
84.Bl -tag -width "refresh_interval"
85.It Fl M Ar core
86Extract values associated with the name list from
87.Ar core
88instead of the default
89.Pa /dev/mem .
90.It Fl N Ar system
91Extract the name list from
92.Ar system
93instead of the default
94.Pa /netbsd .
95.It Fl b
96Show the chosen display once and exit.
97.It Fl n
98Do not resolve IP addresses into string hostnames
99.Pq FQDNs
100on
101.Ic netstat .
102It has the same effect as
103.Ic numbers
104subcommand in
105.Ic netstat .
106.It Fl w Ar wait
107See
108.Ar refresh-interval .
109.It Fl t Ar turns
110How many refreshes to show each screen in 'all' display mode.
111.It Ar display
112The
113.Ar display
114argument expects to be one of:
115.Ic all ,
116.Ic bufcache ,
117.Ic df ,
118.Ic ifstat ,
119.Ic inet.icmp ,
120.Ic inet.ip ,
121.Ic inet.tcp ,
122.Ic inet.tcpsyn ,
123.Ic inet6.ip6 ,
124.Ic iostat ,
125.Ic mbufs ,
126.Ic netstat ,
127.Ic pigs ,
128.Ic ps ,
129.Ic swap ,
130.Ic syscall
131or
132.Ic vmstat .
133These displays can also be requested interactively and are described in
134full detail below.
135.It Ar refresh-interval
136The
137.Ar refresh-interval
138specifies the screen refresh time interval in seconds.
139This is provided for backwards compatibility, and overrides the
140.Ar refresh-interval
141specified with the
142.Fl w
143flag.
144.El
145.Pp
146Certain characters cause immediate action by
147.Nm  .
148These are
149.Bl -tag -width Fl
150.It Ic \&^L
151Refresh the screen.
152.It Ic \&^G
153Print the name of the current ``display'' being shown in
154the lower window and the refresh interval.
155.It Ic \&^Z
156Stop
157.Nm  .
158.It Ic \&? , Ic h
159Print the names of the available displays on the command line.
160.It Ic \&:
161Move the cursor to the command line and interpret the input
162line typed as a command.
163While entering a command the current character erase, word erase,
164and line kill characters may be used.
165.El
166.Pp
167The following commands are interpreted by the ``global''
168command interpreter.
169.Bl -tag -width Fl
170.It Ic help Ar key
171Print the names of the available displays on the command line.
172It will print long names as
173.Dq Ic inet.* .
174To print items under
175.Dq Ic inet ,
176give
177.Ic inet
178as
179.Ar key .
180.It Ic load
181Print the load average over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes
182on the command line.
183.It Ic stop
184Stop refreshing the screen.
185.It Oo Ic start Oc Oo Ar number Oc
186Start (continue) refreshing the screen.
187If a second, numeric, argument is provided it is interpreted as a
188refresh interval in seconds.
189Supplying only a number will set the refresh interval to this
190value.
191.It Ic quit
192Exit
193.Nm  .
194(This may be abbreviated to
195.Ic q  . )
196.El
197.Pp
198The available displays are:
199.Bl -tag -width Ic
200.It Ic all
201Cycle through all displays automatically.
202At each display, wait some
203refresh-turns, then switch to the next display.
204Duration of one refresh-turn is adjustable with the
205.Fl w
206option, number of refresh-turns can be changed with the
207.Fl t
208option.
209.It Ic bufcache
210Display, in the lower window, statistics about the file system buffers.
211Statistics for each file system that has active buffers include the number
212of buffers for that file system, the number of active kilobytes in those
213buffers and the total size of the buffers for that file system.
214.It Ic df
215Lists disk usage statistics for all filesystems,
216including the available free space as well as a bar
217graph indicating the used capacity.
218.Pp
219The following commands are specific to the
220.Ic df
221display:
222.Pp
223.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
224.It Cm all
225Displays information for all filesystems, including
226kernfs, procfs and null-mounts.
227.It Cm some
228Suppress information about procfs, kernfs and null-mounts (default).
229.El
230.It Ic ifstat
231Display the network traffic going through active interfaces on the
232system.
233Idle interfaces will not be displayed until they receive some
234traffic.
235.Pp
236For each interface being displayed, the current, peak and total
237statistics are displayed for incoming and outgoing traffic.
238By default,
239the
240.Ic ifstat
241display will automatically scale the units being used so that they are
242in a human-readable format.
243The scaling units used for the current and
244peak
245traffic columns can be altered by the
246.Ic scale
247command.
248.Bl -tag -width ".Cm scale Op Ar units"
249.It Cm scale Op Ar units
250Modify the scale used to display the current and peak traffic over all
251interfaces.
252The following units are recognised: kbit, kbyte, mbit,
253mbyte, gbit, gbyte and auto.
254.It Cm pps
255Show statistics in packets per second instead of bytes/bits per second.
256A subsequent call of
257.Ic pps
258switches this mode off.
259.It Cm match Op Ar patterns
260Display only interfaces that match pattern provided as an argument.
261Patterns should be in shell syntax separated by whitespaces or commas.
262If this command is called without arguments then all interfaces are displayed.
263For example:
264.Pp
265.Dl match re0, bge1
266.Pp
267This will display re0 and bge1 interfaces.
268.Pp
269.Dl match re*, bge*, lo0
270.Pp
271This will display all
272.Ic re
273interfaces, all
274.Ic bge
275interfaces and the loopback interface.
276.El
277.It Ic inet.icmp
278Display ICMP statistics.
279.It Ic inet.ip
280Display IPv4 and UDP statistics.
281.It Ic inet.tcp
282Display TCP statistics.
283.It Ic inet.tcpsyn
284Display statistics about the TCP ``syncache''.
285.It Ic inet6.ip6
286Display IPv6 statistics.
287.It Ic iostat
288Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
289and disk throughput.
290Statistics on processor use appear as bar graphs of the amount of
291time executing in user mode (``user''), in user mode running low
292priority processes (``nice''), in system mode (``system''), and
293idle (``idle'').
294Statistics on disk throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of
295data transferred, number of disk transactions performed, and time
296spent in disk accesses in milliseconds.
297This information may be displayed as bar graphs or as rows of
298numbers which scroll downward.
299Bar graphs are shown by default;
300.Pp
301The following commands are specific to the
302.Ic iostat
303display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
304.Pp
305.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
306.It Cm numbers
307Show the disk I/O statistics in numeric form.
308Values are
309displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
310.It Cm bars
311Show the disk I/O statistics in bar graph form (default).
312.It Cm secs
313Toggle the display of time in disk activity (the default is to
314not display time).
315.It Cm all
316Show the read and write statistics combined (default).
317.It Cm rw
318Show the read and write statistics separately.
319.El
320.It Ic mbufs
321Display, in the lower window, the number of mbufs allocated
322for particular uses, i.e. data, socket structures, etc.
323.It Ic netstat
324Display, in the lower window, network connections.
325By default, network servers awaiting requests are not displayed.
326Each address is displayed in the format ``host.port'', with each
327shown symbolically, when possible.
328It is possible to have addresses displayed numerically,
329limit the display to a set of ports, hosts, and/or protocols
330(the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied):
331.Pp
332.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
333.It Cm all
334Toggle the displaying of server processes awaiting requests (this
335is the equivalent of the
336.Fl a
337flag to
338.Ar netstat  1  ) .
339.It Cm numbers
340Display network addresses numerically.
341.It Cm names
342Display network addresses symbolically.
343.It Ar protocol
344Display only network connections using the indicated protocol
345(currently either ``tcp'' or ``udp'').
346.It Cm ignore Op Ar items
347Do not display information about connections associated with
348the specified hosts or ports.
349Hosts and ports may be specified by name (``vangogh'', ``ftp''),
350or numerically.
351Host addresses use the Internet dot notation (``128.32.0.9'').
352Multiple items may be specified with a single command by separating
353them with spaces.
354.It Cm display Op Ar items
355Display information about the connections associated with the
356specified hosts or ports.
357As for
358.Ar ignore  ,
359.Op Ar items
360may be names or numbers.
361.It Cm show Op Ar ports\&|hosts
362Show, on the command line, the currently selected protocols,
363hosts, and ports.
364Hosts and ports which are being ignored are prefixed with a `!'.
365If
366.Ar ports
367or
368.Ar hosts
369is supplied as an argument to
370.Cm show  ,
371then only the requested information will be displayed.
372.It Cm reset
373Reset the port, host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the default
374(any protocol, port, or host).
375.El
376.It Ic pigs
377Display, in the lower window, those processes which are getting the
378largest portion of the processor (the default display).
379When less than 100% of the
380processor is scheduled to user processes, the remaining time
381is accounted to the ``idle'' process.
382.It Ic ps
383Display, in the lower window, the same information provided
384by the command
385.Xr ps 1
386with the flags
387.Fl aux .
388.Pp
389The following command is specific to the
390.Ic ps
391display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
392.Pp
393.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
394.It Cm user Ar name
395Limit the list of processes displayed to those owned by user
396.Ar name .
397If
398.Ar name
399is specified as `+', processes owned by any user are displayed (default).
400.El
401.It Ic swap
402Show information about swap space usage on all the
403swap areas configured with
404.Xr swapctl 8 .
405The first column is the device name of the partition.
406The next column is the total space available in the partition.
407The
408.Ar Used
409column indicates the total blocks used so far;
410the graph shows the percentage of space in use on each partition.
411If there are more than one swap partition in use,
412a total line is also shown.
413Areas known to the kernel, but not in use are shown as not available.
414.It Ic syscall
415Show per system call statistics.
416The display consists of several columns of system call name and counts.
417.Pp
418In order to stop entries moving around the screen too much, an infinite
419response filter is applied to the values before they are sorted.
420.Pp
421The following commands are specific to the
422.Ic syscall
423display:
424.Pp
425.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
426.It Ic sort Ic name
427Sort display by the syscall name (default).
428.It Ic sort Ic count
429Sort display by the count of calls or time spent in the calls.
430.It Ic sort Ic syscall
431Sort display be syscall number.
432.It Ic show Ic count
433Show the number of times the system call has be called (default).
434.It Ic show Ic time
435Show the average amount of time (in arbitrary units) spent in a call of
436the syscall.
437.El
438.It Ic vmstat
439Take over the entire display and show a (rather crowded) compendium
440of statistics related to virtual memory usage, process scheduling,
441device interrupts, system name translation caching, disk I/O etc.
442.Pp
443The upper left quadrant of the screen shows the number
444of users logged in and the load average over the last one, five,
445and fifteen minute intervals.
446Below this are statistics on memory utilization.
447The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
448active processes, that is processes that have run in the previous
449twenty seconds.
450The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
451The first column reports on the number of physical pages
452claimed by processes.
453The second column reports the number of physical pages that
454are devoted to read only text pages.
455The third and fourth columns report the same two figures for
456virtual pages, that is the number of pages that would be
457needed if all processes had all of their pages.
458Finally the last column shows the number of physical pages
459on the free list.
460.Pp
461Below the memory display is a list of the
462average number of processes (over the last refresh interval)
463that are runnable (`r'), in page wait (`p'),
464in disk wait other than paging (`d'), sleeping (`s').
465Below the queue length listing is a numerical listing and
466a bar graph showing the amount of
467system (shown as `='), user (shown as `>'),
468nice (shown as `-'), and idle time (shown as ` ').
469.Pp
470To the right of the process statistics is a column that
471lists the average number of context switches (`Csw'),
472traps (`Traps'; includes page faults), system calls (`SysCa'), interrupts (`Intr'),
473network software interrupts (`Soft'),
474page faults (`Fault').
475.Pp
476Below this are statistics on memory utilization.
477The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
478active processes, that is processes that have run in the previous
479twenty seconds.
480The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
481The first column reports on the number of physical pages
482claimed by processes.
483The second column reports the number of pages of memory and swap.
484The third column gives the number of pages of free memory and swap.
485.Pp
486Below the memory display are statistics on name translations.
487It lists the number of names translated in the previous interval,
488the number and percentage of the translations that were
489handled by the system wide name translation cache, and
490the number and percentage of the translations that were
491handled by the per process name translation cache.
492.Pp
493At the bottom left is the disk usage display.
494It reports the number of seeks, transfers, number
495of kilobyte blocks transferred per second averaged over the
496refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds), and
497the time spent in disk accesses.
498If there are more than five disks, and the terminal window has more
499than 24 lines, the disks display will be flipped so that more
500of the disk statistics are visible.
501.Pp
502Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
503on paging and swapping activity.
504The first two columns report the average number of pages
505brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
506due to page faults and the paging daemon.
507The third and fourth columns report the average number of pages
508brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
509due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.
510The first row of the display shows the average
511number of disk transfers per second over the last refresh interval;
512the second row of the display shows the average
513number of pages transferred per second over the last refresh interval.
514.Pp
515Below the paging statistics is another columns of paging data.
516From top to bottom, these represent:
517.Pp
518.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
519.It Sq Ic forks
520number of
521.Fn fork
522calls
523.It Sq Ic fkppw
524number of
525.Fn fork
526calls where parent waits
527.It Sq Ic fksvm
528number of
529.Fn fork
530calls where vmspace is shared
531.It Sq Ic pwait
532number of times fault had to wait on a page
533.It Sq Ic relck
534number of times
535.Fn uvmfault_relock
536is called
537.It Sq Ic rlkok
538number of times
539.Fn uvmfault_relock
540is a success
541.It Sq Ic noram
542number of times fault was out of RAM
543.It Sq Ic ndcpy
544number of times fault clears ``needs copy''
545.It Sq Ic fltcp
546number of times fault promotes with copy (2b)
547.It Sq Ic zfod
548number of times fault promotes with zerofill (2b)
549.It Sq Ic cow
550number of times faulted for anonymous for Copy-On-Write (case 1b)
551.It Sq Ic fmin
552min number of free pages
553.It Sq Ic ftarg
554target number of free pages
555.It Sq Ic itarg
556target number of inactive pages
557.It Sq Ic flnan
558number of times fault was out of anonymous pages
559.It Sq Ic pdfre
560number of pages daemon freed since boot
561.It Sq Ic pdscn
562number of pages daemon scanned since boot
563.El
564.Pp
565Note that the `%zfod' percentage is usually less than 100%,
566however it may exceed 100% if a large number of requests
567are actually used long after they were set up during a
568period when no new pages are being set up.
569Thus this figure is most interesting when observed over
570a long time period, such as from boot time
571(see below on getting such a display).
572.Pp
573To the left of the column of paging statistics is a breakdown
574of the interrupts being handled by the system.
575At the top of the list is the total interrupts per second
576over the time interval.
577The rest of the column breaks down the total on a device
578by device basis.
579Only devices that have interrupted at least once since boot time are shown.
580.El
581.Pp
582Commands to switch between displays may be abbreviated to the
583minimum unambiguous prefix; for example, ``io'' for ``iostat''.
584Certain information may be discarded when the screen size is
585insufficient for display.
586For example, on a machine with 10 drives the
587.Ic iostat
588bar graph displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.
589When a bar graph would overflow the allotted screen space it is
590truncated and the actual value is printed ``over top'' of the bar.
591.Pp
592The following commands are common to each display which shows
593information about disk drives.
594These commands are used to select a set of drives to report on,
595should your system have more drives configured than can normally
596be displayed on the screen.
597Drives may be specified as drive names or as patterns specified in the
598notation described by
599.Xr fnmatch 3 .
600.Pp
601.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
602.It Cm display Op Ar drives
603Display information about the drives indicated.
604Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
605.It Cm ignore Op Ar drives
606Do not display information about the drives indicated.
607Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
608.It Cm drives Op Ar drives
609With no arguments, display a list of available drives.
610With arguments, replace the list of currently displayed drives
611with the ones specified.
612.El
613.Pp
614The following commands are specific to the
615.Ic inet.* ,
616.Ic inet6.* ,
617.Ic syscall
618and
619.Ic vmstat
620displays; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
621.Pp
622.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
623.It Cm boot
624Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.
625.It Cm run
626Display statistics as a running total from the point this
627command is given.
628.It Cm time
629Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the default).
630.It Cm zero
631Reset running statistics to zero.
632.El
633.Sh FILES
634.Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
635.It Pa /netbsd
636For the namelist.
637.It Pa /dev/kmem
638For information in main memory.
639.It Pa /etc/hosts
640For host names.
641.It Pa /etc/networks
642For network names.
643.It Pa /etc/services
644For port names.
645.El
646.Sh NOTES
647Much of the information that
648.Nm
649.Ic vmstat
650uses is obtained from
651.Cm struct vmmeter cnt .
652.Sh SEE ALSO
653.Xr df 1 ,
654.Xr netstat 1 ,
655.Xr ps 1 ,
656.Xr top 1 ,
657.Xr vmstat 1 ,
658.Xr iostat 8 ,
659.Xr pstat 8
660.Sh HISTORY
661The
662.Nm
663program appeared in
664.Bx 4.3 .
665.Sh BUGS
666Consumes CPU resources and thus may skew statistics.
667.Pp
668Certain displays presume a minimum of 80 characters per line.
669.Pp
670The
671.Ic vmstat
672display looks out of place because it is (it was added in as
673a separate display from what used to be a different program).
674.Pp
675The
676.Fl b
677option requires a real terminal and could be converted to
678simply output to standard output.
679