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33.Dd $Mdocdate: April 29 2011 $
34.Dt SYSTAT 1
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm systat
38.Nd display system statistics
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm systat
41.Op Fl abiNn
42.Op Fl d Ar count
43.Op Fl s Ar delay
44.Op Fl w Ar width
45.Op Ar view
46.Op Ar delay
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48.Nm
49displays various system statistics in a screen-oriented fashion
50using the
51.Xr curses 3
52screen display library.
53.Pp
54While
55.Nm
56is running, the screen is divided into different areas.
57The top line displays the current number of users, the
58three system load average figures over the last 1, 5, and
5915 minute intervals, and the system time.
60The bottom line of the screen is reserved for
61user input and error messages.
62The information displayed in the rest of the screen
63comprises a
64.Em view ,
65and is the main interface for
66displaying different types of system statistics.
67The
68.Ic vmstat
69view is the default.
70.Pp
71Certain information may be discarded when the screen size is
72insufficient for display.
73For example, on a machine with 10 drives the
74.Ic iostat
75bar graph displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.
76.\".Pp
77.\"Input is interpreted at two different levels.
78.\"A
79.\".Dq global
80.\"command interpreter processes all keyboard input.
81.\"If this command interpreter fails to recognize a command, the
82.\"input line is passed to a per-display command interpreter.
83.\"This allows each display to have certain display-specific commands.
84.Pp
85The options are as follows:
86.Bl -tag -width Ds
87.It Fl a
88Display all lines.
89.It Fl b
90Raw, non-interactive mode.
91.It Fl d Ar count
92Exit after
93.Ar count
94screen updates.
95.It Fl i
96Interactive mode.
97.It Fl N
98Resolve network addresses to names.
99This is the opposite of the
100.Fl n
101option.
102.It Fl n
103Do not try to reverse map IP addresses.
104This is the default.
105.It Fl s Ar delay
106Specifies the screen refresh time interval in seconds.
107This option is overridden by the final
108.Ar delay
109argument, if given.
110The default interval is 5 seconds.
111.It Fl w Ar width
112Specifies the maximum width of the display.
113.\" XXX not sure for the above.
114.It Ar view
115The
116.Ar view
117argument expects to be one of:
118.Ic vmstat ,
119.Ic pigs ,
120.Ic ifstat ,
121.Ic iostat ,
122.Ic sensors ,
123.Ic mbufs ,
124.Ic netstat ,
125.Ic swap ,
126.Ic states ,
127.Ic rules ,
128.Ic queues ,
129.Ic pf ,
130.Ic pool ,
131.Ic malloc ,
132.Ic buckets ,
133.Ic nfsclient ,
134or
135.Ic nfsserver .
136These displays can also be requested interactively and are described in
137full detail below.
138.Ar view
139may be abbreviated to the minimum unambiguous prefix;
140for example,
141.Dq io
142for
143.Dq iostat .
144.It Ar delay
145The
146.Ar delay
147argument specifies the screen refresh time interval in seconds.
148This is provided for backwards compatibility, and overrides any
149interval specified with the
150.Fl s
151flag.
152The default interval is 5 seconds.
153.El
154.Pp
155Certain characters cause immediate action by
156.Nm .
157These are:
158.Bl -tag -width Fl
159.It Ic \&:
160Move the cursor to the command line and interpret the input
161line typed as a command.
162While entering a command the
163current character erase, word erase, and line kill characters
164may be used.
165.It Ic o
166Select the next ordering which sorts the rows according to a
167combination of columns.
168Available orderings depend on the view.
169Not all views support orderings.
170.It Ic p
171Pause
172.Nm .
173.It Ic q
174Quit
175.Nm .
176.It Ic r
177Reverse the selected ordering if supported by the view.
178.It Ic \&,
179Print numbers with thousand separators, where applicable.
180.It Ic ^A \*(Ba Aq Ic Home
181Jump to the beginning of the current view.
182.It Ic ^B \*(Ba Aq Ic right arrow
183Select the previous view.
184.It Ic ^E \*(Ba Aq Ic End
185Jump to the end of the current view.
186.It Ic ^F \*(Ba Aq Ic left arrow
187Select the next view.
188.It Ic ^G
189Print the name of the current
190view being shown and the refresh interval.
191.It Ic ^L
192Refresh the screen.
193.It Ic ^N \*(Ba Aq Ic down arrow
194Scroll current view down by one line.
195.It Ic ^P \*(Ba Aq Ic up arrow
196Scroll current view up by one line.
197.It Ic ^V \*(Ba Aq Ic Page Down
198Scroll current view down by one page.
199.It Ic Alt-V \*(Ba Aq Ic Page Up
200Scroll current view up by one page.
201.It Ic ^Z
202Suspend
203.Nm .
204.El
205.Pp
206The following commands are interpreted by the
207.Dq global
208command interpreter.
209.Bl -tag -width Fl
210.It Ic help
211Print the names of the available views on the command line.
212.It Ic quit
213Quit
214.Nm .
215(This may be abbreviated to
216.Ic q . )
217.It Ic stop
218Stop refreshing the screen.
219.It Xo
220.Op Ic start
221.Op Ar number
222.Xc
223Start (continue) refreshing the screen.
224If a second, numeric,
225argument is provided it is interpreted as a refresh interval
226(in seconds).
227Supplying only a number will set the refresh interval to this
228value.
229.El
230.Pp
231.Ar view
232may be abbreviated to the minimum unambiguous prefix.
233The available views are:
234.Bl -tag -width "netstatXXX"
235.It Ic buckets
236Display kernel
237.Xr malloc 9
238bucket statistics similar to the output of
239.Cm vmstat Fl m .
240.It Ic ifstat
241Display interface statistics.
242The
243.Dq State
244column has the format
245.Sm off
246.Xo
247.Cm up \*(Ba dn
248.Bq : Cm U \*(Ba D .
249.Xc
250.Sm on
251.Sq up
252and
253.Sq dn
254represent whether the interface is up or down.
255.Sq U
256and
257.Sq D
258represent whether the interface is connected or not;
259in the case of
260.Xr carp 4
261interfaces, whether the interface is in master or backup state, respectively.
262.Pp
263The character
264.Ic B
265changes the counter view between bytes and bits.
266Pressing
267.Ic b
268displays statistics as calculated from boot time.
269.Ic r
270changes the counters to show their totals as calculated
271between display refreshes.
272.Ic t
273changes the counters to show the average per second over
274the display refresh interval;
275this is the default.
276.It Ic iostat
277Display statistics about disk throughput.
278Statistics
279on disk throughput show, for each drive, data transferred in kilobytes,
280number of disk transactions performed, and time spent in disk accesses
281(in fractions of a second).
282.It Ic malloc
283Display kernel
284.Xr malloc 9
285type statistics similar to the output of
286.Cm vmstat Fl m .
287Available orderings are:
288.Ic name ,
289.Ic inuse ,
290.Ic memuse ,
291and
292.Ic requests .
293.It Ic mbufs
294Display mbuf usage information from kernel pools
295and mbuf cluster pool statistics of each network interface.
296.It Ic netstat
297Display network connections.
298By default, network servers awaiting requests are not displayed.
299Each address
300is displayed in the format
301.Dq host:port ,
302with each shown symbolically, when possible.
303.\"It is possible to have addresses displayed numerically,
304.\"limit the display to a set of ports, hosts, and/or protocols
305.\"(the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied):
306.\".Bl -tag -width Ar
307.\".It Cm all
308.\"Toggle the displaying of server processes awaiting requests (this
309.\"is the equivalent of the
310.\".Fl a
311.\"flag to
312.\".Xr netstat 1 ) .
313.\".It Cm display Op Ar items
314.\"Display information about the connections associated with the
315.\"specified hosts or ports.
316.\"As for
317.\".Ar ignore ,
318.\".Ar items
319.\"may be names or numbers.
320.\".It Cm ignore Op Ar items
321.\"Do not display information about connections associated with
322.\"the specified hosts or ports.
323.\"Hosts and ports may be specified
324.\"by name
325.\".Pf ( Dq vangogh ,
326.\".Dq ftp ) ,
327.\"or numerically.
328.\"Host addresses
329.\"use the Internet dot notation
330.\".Pq Dq 128.32.0.9 .
331.\"Multiple items
332.\"may be specified with a single command by separating them with
333.\"spaces.
334.\".It Cm names
335.\"Display network addresses symbolically.
336.\".It Cm numbers
337.\"Display network addresses numerically.
338.\".It Cm reset
339.\"Reset the port, host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the default
340.\"(any protocol, port, or host).
341.\".It Cm show Oo
342.\".Ar protocols \*(Ba ports \*(Ba hosts
343.\".Oc
344.\"Show, on the command line, the currently selected protocols,
345.\"hosts, and ports.
346.\"Protocols, hosts and ports which are being ignored are prefixed with a
347.\".Ql \&! .
348.\"If an argument is supplied to
349.\".Cm show ,
350.\"then only the requested information will be displayed.
351.\".It Cm tcp \*(Ba udp \*(Ba all
352.\"Display only network connections using the indicated protocol.
353.\".El
354.It Ic nfsclient
355Display statistics about NFS client activity.
356Output resembles
357.Cm nfsstat Fl c .
358.It Ic nfsserver
359Display statistics about NFS server activity.
360Output resembles
361.Cm nfsstat Fl s .
362.It Ic pf
363Display filter information about
364.Xr pf 4 ,
365similar to the output of
366.Cm pfctl Fl s Cm info
367option.
368.It Ic pigs
369Display those processes resident in main
370memory and getting the
371largest portion of the processor.
372When less than 100% of the
373processor is scheduled to user processes, the remaining time
374is accounted to the
375.Dq idle
376process.
377.It Ic pool
378Display kernel
379.Xr pool 9
380statistics similar to the output of
381.Cm vmstat Fl m .
382Available orderings are:
383.Ic name ,
384.Ic requests ,
385.Ic size ,
386and
387.Ic number of pages .
388.It Ic queues
389Display statistics about the active
390.Xr altq 9
391queues, similar to the output of
392.Cm pfctl Fl s Cm queue .
393.It Ic rules
394Display pf rules statistics, similar to the output of
395.Cm pfctl Fl s Cm rules .
396.It Ic sensors
397Display the current values of available hardware sensors,
398in a format similar to that of
399.Xr sysctl 8 .
400.It Ic states
401Display pf states statistics, similar to the output of
402.Cm pfctl Fl s Cm states .
403Available orderings are:
404.Ic none ,
405.Ic bytes ,
406.Ic expiry ,
407.Ic packets ,
408.Ic age ,
409.Ic source address ,
410.Ic source port ,
411.Ic destination address ,
412.Ic destination port ,
413.Ic rate ,
414and
415.Ic peak
416columns.
417.It Ic swap
418Show information about swap space usage on all the
419swap areas compiled into the kernel.
420The first column is the device name of the partition.
421The next column is the total space available in the partition.
422The
423.Ar Used
424column indicates the total blocks used so far;
425the graph shows the percentage of space in use on each partition.
426If there is more than one swap partition in use,
427a total line is also shown.
428Areas known to the kernel but not in use are shown as not available.
429.It Ic vmstat
430Take over the entire display and show a (rather crowded) compendium
431of statistics related to virtual memory usage, process scheduling,
432device interrupts, system name translation caching, disk I/O, etc.
433This view is the default.
434.Pp
435Below the top line are statistics on memory utilization.
436The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
437active processes, that is, processes that have run in the previous
438twenty seconds.
439The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
440The first column reports on the amount of physical memory
441claimed by processes.
442The second column reports the same figure for
443virtual memory, that is, the amount of memory that would be
444needed if all processes were resident at the same time.
445Finally, the last column shows the amount of physical memory
446on the free list.
447.Pp
448Below the memory display is a list of the average number of processes
449(over the last refresh interval) that are runnable
450.Pq Sq r ,
451in disk wait other than paging
452.Pq Sq d ,
453sleeping
454.Pq Sq s ,
455and swapped out but desiring to run
456.Pq Sq w .
457Below the queue length listing is a numerical listing and
458a bar graph showing the amount of
459interrupt (shown as
460.Ql \*(Ba ) ,
461system (shown as
462.Ql = ) ,
463user (shown as
464.Ql \*(Gt ) ,
465nice (shown as
466.Ql - ) ,
467and idle time (shown as
468.Ql \ \& ) .
469.Pp
470To the right of the Proc display are statistics about
471Context switches
472.Pq Dq Csw ,
473Traps
474.Pq Dq Trp ,
475Syscalls
476.Pq Dq Sys ,
477Interrupts
478.Pq Dq Int ,
479Soft interrupts
480.Pq Dq Sof ,
481and Faults
482.Pq Dq Flt
483which have occurred during the last refresh interval.
484.Pp
485Below the CPU usage graph are statistics on name translations.
486It lists the number of names translated in the previous interval,
487the number and percentage of the translations that were
488handled by the system wide name translation cache, and
489the number and percentage of the translations that were
490handled by the per process name translation cache.
491.Pp
492At the bottom left is the disk usage display.
493It reports the number of seeks, transfers, number
494of kilobyte blocks transferred per second averaged over the
495refresh period of the display, and
496the time spent in disk accesses.
497.Pp
498Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
499on paging and swapping activity.
500The first two columns report the average number of pages
501brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
502due to page faults and the paging daemon.
503The third and fourth columns report the average number of pages
504brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
505due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.
506The first row of the display shows the average
507number of disk transfers per second over the last refresh interval.
508The second row of the display shows the average
509number of pages transferred per second over the last refresh interval.
510.Pp
511Running down the right hand side of the display is a breakdown
512of the interrupts being handled by the system.
513At the top of the list is the total interrupts per second
514over the time interval.
515The rest of the column breaks down the total on a device
516by device basis.
517Only devices that have interrupted at least once since boot time are shown.
518.Pp
519Below the Interrupts display are
520the average number of input and output packets per second
521for all interfaces over the last refresh interval.
522.Pp
523Below the SWAPPING display and slightly to the left of the Interrupts
524display is a list of virtual memory statistics.
525The abbreviations are:
526.Pp
527.Bl -tag -compact -width "kmapentXX" -offset indent
528.It forks
529process forks
530.It fkppw
531forks where parent waits
532.It fksvm
533forks where vmspace is shared
534.It pwait
535fault had to wait on a page
536.It relck
537fault relock called
538.It rlkok
539fault relock is successful
540.It noram
541faults out of ram
542.It ndcpy
543number of times fault clears "need copy"
544.It fltcp
545number of times fault promotes with copy
546.It zfod
547fault promotes with zerofill
548.It cow
549number of times fault anon cow
550.It fmin
551min number of free pages
552.It ftarg
553target number of free pages
554.It itarg
555target number of inactive pages
556.It wired
557wired pages
558.It pdfre
559pages daemon freed since boot
560.It pdscn
561pages daemon scanned since boot
562.It pzidle
563number of zeroed pages
564.It kmapent
565number of kernel map entries
566.El
567.Pp
568The
569.Ql %zfod
570value is more interesting when observed over a long
571period, such as from boot time.
572.\"(see the
573.\".Cm boot
574.\"option below).
575.El
576.\".Pp
577.\"The following commands are specific to the
578.\".Ic vmstat
579.\"and
580.\".Ic ifstat
581.\"views; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
582.\".Pp
583.\".Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
584.\".It Cm boot
585.\"Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.
586.\".It Cm run
587.\"Display statistics as a running total from the point this
588.\"command is given.
589.\".It Cm time
590.\"Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the default).
591.\".It Cm zero
592.\"Reset running statistics to zero.
593.\".El
594.\".Pp
595.\"The following commands are common to each view which shows
596.\"information about disk drives.
597.\"These commands are used to select a set of drives to report on,
598.\"should a system have more drives configured
599.\"than can normally be displayed on the screen.
600.\".Pp
601.\".Bl -tag -width Tx -compact
602.\".It Cm display Op Ar drives
603.\"Display information about the drives indicated.
604.\"Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
605.\".It Cm ignore Op Ar drives
606.\"Do not display information about the drives indicated.
607.\"Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
608.\".El
609.Sh FILES
610.Bl -tag -width "/etc/networksXXX" -compact
611.It Pa /etc/hosts
612Host names.
613.It Pa /etc/networks
614Network names.
615.It Pa /etc/pf.conf
616.Xr pf 4
617configuration.
618.It Pa /etc/services
619Port names.
620.El
621.Sh SEE ALSO
622.Xr fstat 1 ,
623.Xr kill 1 ,
624.Xr netstat 1 ,
625.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
626.Xr ps 1 ,
627.Xr top 1 ,
628.Xr iostat 8 ,
629.Xr pfctl 8 ,
630.Xr pstat 8 ,
631.Xr renice 8 ,
632.Xr sysctl 8 ,
633.Xr vmstat 8
634.Sh HISTORY
635The
636.Nm
637program first appeared in
638.Bx 4.3 .
639.Sh BUGS
640Certain displays presume a minimum of 80 characters per line.
641The
642.Ic vmstat
643display looks out of place because it is (it was added in as
644a separate display rather than created as a new program).
645