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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd March 12, 2009
28.Dt GSTAT 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm gstat
32.Nd print statistics about GEOM disks
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl abcd
36.Op Fl f Ar filter
37.Op Fl I Ar interval
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41utility can be used to monitor I/O transactions of
42.Xr geom 4
43devices.
44.Pp
45The options are as follows:
46.Bl -tag -width indent
47.It Fl a
48Only display providers that are at least 0.1% busy.
49.It Fl b
50Batch mode.
51Collect numbers, print and exit.
52Default if stdout is not a tty.
53.It Fl c
54Enable display of
55.Xr geom 4
56consumers too.
57The default is to show statistics only for
58.Xr geom 4
59producers.
60.It Fl d
61Enable display of statistics for delete
62.Pq Dv BIO_DELETE
63operations.
64.It Fl f Ar filter
65A regular expression that can be used to only show statistics for some
66devices.
67Only devices with the names matching
68.Ar filter
69will be displayed.
70The format of the regular expression is described in
71.Xr re_format 7 .
72.It Fl I Ar interval
73Refresh the
74.Nm
75display every
76.Ar interval
77microseconds.
78Adding a suffix of
79.Cm s , ms ,
80or
81.Cm us
82(the default) indicates that the update interval is specified in
83seconds, milliseconds, or microseconds, respectively.
84.El
85.Sh EXIT STATUS
86.Ex -std
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr systat 1 ,
89.Xr geom 4 ,
90.Xr iostat 8 ,
91.Xr vmstat 8
92.Sh HISTORY
93A
94.Nm
95utility appeared in
96.Fx 5.0 .
97