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32.Dd October 22, 2009
33.Dt SYSTAT 1
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm systat
37.Nd display system statistics on a CRT
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm
40.Op Fl n
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
71.Tn I/O
72statistics (a la
73.Xr iostat  8  ) ,
74virtual memory statistics (a la
75.Xr vmstat  1  ) ,
76network ``mbuf'' utilization, and network connections (a la
77.Xr netstat  1  ) .
78.Pp
79Input is interpreted at two different levels.
80A ``global'' command interpreter processes all keyboard input.
81If this command interpreter fails to recognize a command, the
82input line is passed to a per-display command interpreter.
83This allows each display to have certain display-specific commands.
84.Pp
85Command line options:
86.Bl -tag -width "refresh_interval"
87.It Fl M Ar core
88Extract values associated with the name list from
89.Ar core
90instead of the default
91.Pa /dev/mem .
92.It Fl N Ar system
93Extract the name list from
94.Ar system
95instead of the default
96.Pa /netbsd .
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 inet.icmp ,
119.Ic inet.ip ,
120.Ic inet.tcp ,
121.Ic inet.tcpsyn ,
122.Ic inet6.ip6 ,
123.Ic ipsec ,
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 inet.icmp
231Display ICMP statistics.
232.It Ic inet.ip
233Display IPv4 and UDP statistics.
234.It Ic inet.tcp
235Display TCP statistics.
236.It Ic inet.tcpsyn
237Display statistics about the
238.Tn TCP
239``syncache''.
240.It Ic inet6.ip6
241Display IPv6 statistics.
242.It Ic ipsec
243Display IPsec statistics for both IPv4 and v6.
244.It Ic iostat
245Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
246and disk throughput.
247Statistics on processor use appear as bar graphs of the amount of
248time executing in user mode (``user''), in user mode running low
249priority processes (``nice''), in system mode (``system''), and
250idle (``idle'').
251Statistics on disk throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of
252data transferred, number of disk transactions performed, and time
253spent in disk accesses in milliseconds.
254This information may be displayed as bar graphs or as rows of
255numbers which scroll downward.
256Bar graphs are shown by default;
257.Pp
258The following commands are specific to the
259.Ic iostat
260display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
261.Pp
262.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
263.It Cm numbers
264Show the disk
265.Tn I/O
266statistics in numeric form.
267Values are
268displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
269.It Cm bars
270Show the disk
271.Tn I/O
272statistics in bar graph form (default).
273.It Cm secs
274Toggle the display of time in disk activity (the default is to
275not display time).
276.It Cm all
277Show the read and write statistics combined (default).
278.It Cm rw
279Show the read and write statistics separately.
280.El
281.It Ic mbufs
282Display, in the lower window, the number of mbufs allocated
283for particular uses, i.e. data, socket structures, etc.
284.It Ic netstat
285Display, in the lower window, network connections.
286By default, network servers awaiting requests are not displayed.
287Each address is displayed in the format ``host.port'', with each
288shown symbolically, when possible.
289It is possible to have addresses displayed numerically,
290limit the display to a set of ports, hosts, and/or protocols
291(the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied):
292.Pp
293.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
294.It Cm all
295Toggle the displaying of server processes awaiting requests (this
296is the equivalent of the
297.Fl a
298flag to
299.Ar netstat  1  ) .
300.It Cm numbers
301Display network addresses numerically.
302.It Cm names
303Display network addresses symbolically.
304.It Ar protocol
305Display only network connections using the indicated protocol
306(currently either ``tcp'' or ``udp'').
307.It Cm ignore Op Ar items
308Do not display information about connections associated with
309the specified hosts or ports.
310Hosts and ports may be specified by name (``vangogh'', ``ftp''),
311or numerically.
312Host addresses use the Internet dot notation (``128.32.0.9'').
313Multiple items may be specified with a single command by separating
314them with spaces.
315.It Cm display Op Ar items
316Display information about the connections associated with the
317specified hosts or ports.
318As for
319.Ar ignore  ,
320.Op Ar items
321may be names or numbers.
322.It Cm show Op Ar ports\&|hosts
323Show, on the command line, the currently selected protocols,
324hosts, and ports.
325Hosts and ports which are being ignored are prefixed with a `!'.
326If
327.Ar ports
328or
329.Ar hosts
330is supplied as an argument to
331.Cm show  ,
332then only the requested information will be displayed.
333.It Cm reset
334Reset the port, host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the default
335(any protocol, port, or host).
336.El
337.It Ic pigs
338Display, in the lower window, those processes which are getting the
339largest portion of the processor (the default display).
340When less than 100% of the
341processor is scheduled to user processes, the remaining time
342is accounted to the ``idle'' process.
343.It Ic ps
344Display, in the lower window, the same information provided
345by the command
346.Xr ps 1
347with the flags
348.Fl aux .
349.Pp
350The following command is specific to the
351.Ic ps
352display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
353.Pp
354.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
355.It Cm user Ar name
356Limit the list of processes displayed to those owned by user
357.Ar name .
358If
359.Ar name
360is specified as `+', processes owned by any user are displayed (default).
361.El
362.It Ic swap
363Show information about swap space usage on all the
364swap areas configured with
365.Xr swapctl 8 .
366The first column is the device name of the partition.
367The next column is the total space available in the partition.
368The
369.Ar Used
370column indicates the total blocks used so far;
371the graph shows the percentage of space in use on each partition.
372If there are more than one swap partition in use,
373a total line is also shown.
374Areas known to the kernel, but not in use are shown as not available.
375.It Ic syscall
376Show per system call statistics.
377The display consists of several columns of system call name and counts.
378.Pp
379In order to stop entries moving around the screen too much, an infinite
380response filter is applied to the values before they are sorted.
381.Pp
382The following commands are specific to the
383.Ic syscall
384display:
385.Pp
386.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
387.It Ic sort Ic name
388Sort display by the syscall name (default).
389.It Ic sort Ic count
390Sort display by the count of calls or time spent in the calls.
391.It Ic sort Ic syscall
392Sort display be syscall number.
393.It Ic show Ic count
394Show the number of times the system call has be called (default).
395.It Ic show Ic time
396Show the average amount of time (in arbitrary units) spent in a call of
397the syscall.
398.El
399.It Ic vmstat
400Take over the entire display and show a (rather crowded) compendium
401of statistics related to virtual memory usage, process scheduling,
402device interrupts, system name translation caching, disk
403.Tn I/O
404etc.
405.Pp
406The upper left quadrant of the screen shows the number
407of users logged in and the load average over the last one, five,
408and fifteen minute intervals.
409Below this is a list of the
410average number of processes (over the last refresh interval)
411that are runnable (`r'), in page wait (`p'),
412in disk wait other than paging (`d'), sleeping (`s').
413Below the queue length listing is a numerical listing and
414a bar graph showing the amount of
415system (shown as `='), user (shown as `\*[Gt]'),
416nice (shown as `-'), and idle time (shown as ` ').
417.Pp
418To the right of the process statistics is a column that
419lists the average number of context switches (`Csw'),
420traps (`Trp'; includes page faults), system calls (`Sys'), interrupts (`Int'),
421network software interrupts (`Sof'),
422page faults (`Flt').
423.Pp
424Below this are statistics on memory utilization.
425The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
426active processes, that is processes that have run in the previous
427twenty seconds.
428The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
429The first column reports on the number of physical pages
430claimed by processes.
431The second column reports the number of pages of memory and swap.
432The third column gives the number of pages of free memory and swap.
433.Pp
434Below the memory display are statistics on name translations.
435It lists the number of names translated in the previous interval,
436the number and percentage of the translations that were
437handled by the system wide name translation cache, and
438the number and percentage of the translations that were
439handled by the per process name translation cache.
440.Pp
441At the bottom left is the disk usage display.
442It reports the number of seeks, transfers, number
443of kilobyte blocks transferred per second averaged over the
444refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds), and
445the time spent in disk accesses.
446If there are more than five disks, and the terminal window has more
447than 24 lines, the disks display will be flipped so that more
448of the disk statistics are visible.
449.Pp
450Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
451on paging and swapping activity.
452The first two columns report the average number of pages
453brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
454due to page faults and the paging daemon.
455The third and fourth columns report the average number of pages
456brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
457due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.
458The first row of the display shows the average
459number of disk transfers per second over the last refresh interval;
460the second row of the display shows the average
461number of pages transferred per second over the last refresh interval.
462.Pp
463Below the paging statistics is another columns of paging data.
464From top to bottom, these represent average numbers of copy on write faults
465(`cow'), object cache lookups (`objlk'), object cache hits (`objht'),
466pages zero filled on demand (`zfodw'), number zfod's created (`nzfod'),
467percentage of zfod's used (`%zfod'), number of kernel pages (`kern'),
468number of wired pages (`wire'), number of active pages (`act'), number
469of inactive pages (`inact'), number of free pages (`free'), pages freed
470by daemon (`daefr'), pages freed by exiting processes (`prcfr'), number
471of pages reactivated from freelist (`react'), scans in page out daemon
472(`scan'), revolutions of the hand (`hdrev'), and in-transit blocking page
473faults (`intrn'), per second over the refresh period.
474Note that the `%zfod' percentage is usually less than 100%,
475however it may exceed 100% if a large number of requests
476are actually used long after they were set up during a
477period when no new pages are being set up.
478Thus this figure is most interesting when observed over
479a long time period, such as from boot time
480(see below on getting such a display).
481.Pp
482To the left of the column of paging statistics is a breakdown
483of the interrupts being handled by the system.
484At the top of the list is the total interrupts per second
485over the time interval.
486The rest of the column breaks down the total on a device
487by device basis.
488Only devices that have interrupted at least once since boot time are shown.
489.El
490.Pp
491Commands to switch between displays may be abbreviated to the
492minimum unambiguous prefix; for example, ``io'' for ``iostat''.
493Certain information may be discarded when the screen size is
494insufficient for display.
495For example, on a machine with 10 drives the
496.Ic iostat
497bar graph displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.
498When a bar graph would overflow the allotted screen space it is
499truncated and the actual value is printed ``over top'' of the bar.
500.Pp
501The following commands are common to each display which shows
502information about disk drives.
503These commands are used to select a set of drives to report on,
504should your system have more drives configured than can normally
505be displayed on the screen.
506.Pp
507.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
508.It Cm display Op Ar drives
509Display information about the drives indicated.
510Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
511.It Cm ignore Op Ar drives
512Do not display information about the drives indicated.
513Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
514.It Cm drives Op Ar drives
515With no arguments, display a list of available drives.
516With arguments, replace the list of currently displayed drives
517with the ones specified.
518.El
519.Pp
520The following commands are specific to the
521.Ic inet.* ,
522.Ic inet6.* ,
523.Ic ipsec ,
524.Ic syscall
525and
526.Ic vmstat
527displays; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
528.Pp
529.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
530.It Cm boot
531Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.
532.It Cm run
533Display statistics as a running total from the point this
534command is given.
535.It Cm time
536Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the default).
537.It Cm zero
538Reset running statistics to zero.
539.El
540.Sh FILES
541.Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
542.It Pa /netbsd
543For the namelist.
544.It Pa /dev/kmem
545For information in main memory.
546.It Pa /etc/hosts
547For host names.
548.It Pa /etc/networks
549For network names.
550.It Pa /etc/services
551For port names.
552.El
553.Sh NOTES
554Much of the information that
555.Nm
556.Ic vmstat
557uses is obtained from
558.Cm struct vmmeter cnt .
559.Sh SEE ALSO
560.Xr df 1 ,
561.Xr netstat 1 ,
562.Xr ps 1 ,
563.Xr top 1 ,
564.Xr vmstat 1 ,
565.Xr iostat 8 ,
566.Xr pstat 8
567.Sh HISTORY
568The
569.Nm
570program appeared in
571.Bx 4.3 .
572.Sh BUGS
573Consumes CPU resources and thus may skew statistics.
574.Pp
575Certain displays presume a minimum of 80 characters per line.
576.Pp
577The
578.Ic vmstat
579display looks out of place because it is (it was added in as
580a separate display from what used to be a different program).
581