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36.Dd December 30, 1993
37.Dt SYSTAT 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm systat
41.Nd display system statistics on a CRT
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl n
45.Op Fl M Ar core
46.Op Fl N Ar system
47.Op Fl t Ar turns
48.Op Fl w Ar wait
49.Op Ar display
50.Op Ar refresh-interval
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52.Nm
53displays various system statistics in a screen oriented fashion
54using the curses screen display library,
55.Xr curses 3 .
56.Pp
57While
58.Nm
59is running the screen is usually divided into two windows (an exception
60is the vmstat display which uses the entire screen).
61The upper window depicts the current system load average.
62The information displayed in the lower window may vary, depending on
63user commands.
64The last line on the screen is reserved for user input and error messages.
65.Pp
66By default
67.Nm
68displays the processes getting the largest percentage of the processor
69in the lower window.
70Other displays show more detailed process information, swap space usage, disk
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 refreshs 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 inet.icmp ,
118.Ic inet.ip ,
119.Ic inet.tcp ,
120.Ic inet.tcpsyn ,
121.Ic inet6.ip6 ,
122.Ic ipsec ,
123.Ic iostat ,
124.Ic mbufs ,
125.Ic netstat ,
126.Ic pigs ,
127.Ic ps ,
128.Ic swap
129or
130.Ic vmstat .
131These displays can also be requested interactively and are described in
132full detail below.
133.It Ar refresh-interval
134The
135.Ar refresh-interval
136specifies the screen refresh time interval in seconds.
137This is provided for backwards compatibility, and overrides the
138.Ar refresh-interval
139specified with the
140.Fl w
141flag.
142.El
143.Pp
144Certain characters cause immediate action by
145.Nm ""  .
146These are
147.Bl -tag -width Fl
148.It Ic \&^L
149Refresh the screen.
150.It Ic \&^G
151Print the name of the current ``display'' being shown in
152the lower window and the refresh interval.
153.It Ic \&^Z
154Stop
155.Nm ""  .
156.It Ic ? , Ic h
157Print the names of the available displays on the command line.
158.It Ic \&:
159Move the cursor to the command line and interpret the input
160line typed as a command.
161While entering a command the current character erase, word erase,
162and line kill characters may be used.
163.El
164.Pp
165The following commands are interpreted by the ``global''
166command interpreter.
167.Bl -tag -width Fl
168.It Ic help Ar key
169Print the names of the available displays on the command line.
170It will print long names as
171.Dq Ic inet.* .
172To print items under
173.Dq Ic inet ,
174give
175.Ic inet
176as
177.Ar key .
178.It Ic load
179Print the load average over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes
180on the command line.
181.It Ic stop
182Stop refreshing the screen.
183.It Xo
184.Op Ic start
185.Op Ar number
186.Xc
187Start (continue) refreshing the screen.
188If a second, numeric, argument is provided it is interpreted as a
189refresh interval in seconds.
190Supplying only a number will set the refresh interval to this
191value.
192.It Ic quit
193Exit
194.Nm ""  .
195(This may be abbreviated to
196.Ic q  . )
197.El
198.Pp
199The available displays are:
200.Bl -tag -width Ic
201.It Ic all
202Cycle through all displays automatically.
203At each display, wait some
204refresh-turns, then switch to the next display.
205Duration of one refresh-turn is adjustable with the
206.Fl w
207option, number of refresh-turns can be changed with the
208.Fl t
209option.
210.It Ic bufcache
211Display, in the lower window, statistics about the file system buffers.
212Statistics for each file system that has active buffers include the number
213of buffers for that file system, the number of active kilobytes in those
214buffers and the total size of the buffers for that file system.
215.It Ic inet.icmp
216Display ICMP statistics.
217.It Ic inet.ip
218Display IPv4 and UDP statistics.
219.It Ic inet.tcp
220Display TCP statistics.
221.It Ic inet.tcpsyn
222Display statistics about the
223.Tn TCP
224``syncache''.
225.It Ic inet6.ip6
226Display IPv6 statistics.
227.It Ic ipsec
228Display IPsec statistics for both IPv4 and v6.
229.It Ic iostat
230Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use
231and disk throughput.
232Statistics on processor use appear as bar graphs of the amount of
233time executing in user mode (``user''), in user mode running low
234priority processes (``nice''), in system mode (``system''), and
235idle (``idle'').
236Statistics on disk throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of
237data transferred, number of disk transactions performed, and time
238spent in disk accesses in milliseconds.
239This information may be displayed as bar graphs or as rows of
240numbers which scroll downward.
241Bar graphs are shown by default;
242.Pp
243The following commands are specific to the
244.Ic iostat
245display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
246.Pp
247.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
248.It Cm numbers
249Show the disk
250.Tn I/O
251statistics in numeric form.
252Values are
253displayed in numeric columns which scroll downward.
254.It Cm bars
255Show the disk
256.Tn I/O
257statistics in bar graph form (default).
258.It Cm secs
259Toggle the display of time in disk activity (the default is to
260not display time).
261.El
262.It Ic mbufs
263Display, in the lower window, the number of mbufs allocated
264for particular uses, i.e. data, socket structures, etc.
265.It Ic netstat
266Display, in the lower window, network connections.
267By default, network servers awaiting requests are not displayed.
268Each address is displayed in the format ``host.port'', with each
269shown symbolically, when possible.
270It is possible to have addresses displayed numerically,
271limit the display to a set of ports, hosts, and/or protocols
272(the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied):
273.Pp
274.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
275.It Cm all
276Toggle the displaying of server processes awaiting requests (this
277is the equivalent of the
278.Fl a
279flag to
280.Ar netstat  1  ) .
281.It Cm numbers
282Display network addresses numerically.
283.It Cm names
284Display network addresses symbolically.
285.It Ar protocol
286Display only network connections using the indicated protocol
287(currently either ``tcp'' or ``udp'').
288.It Cm ignore Op Ar items
289Do not display information about connections associated with
290the specified hosts or ports.
291Hosts and ports may be specified by name (``vangogh'', ``ftp''),
292or numerically.
293Host addresses use the Internet dot notation (``128.32.0.9'').
294Multiple items may be specified with a single command by separating
295them with spaces.
296.It Cm display Op Ar items
297Display information about the connections associated with the
298specified hosts or ports.
299As for
300.Ar ignore  ,
301.Op Ar items
302may be names or numbers.
303.It Cm show Op Ar ports\&|hosts
304Show, on the command line, the currently selected protocols,
305hosts, and ports.
306Hosts and ports which are being ignored are prefixed with a `!'.
307If
308.Ar ports
309or
310.Ar hosts
311is supplied as an argument to
312.Cm show  ,
313then only the requested information will be displayed.
314.It Cm reset
315Reset the port, host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the default
316(any protocol, port, or host).
317.El
318.It Ic pigs
319Display, in the lower window, those processes resident in main
320memory and getting the
321largest portion of the processor (the default display).
322When less than 100% of the
323processor is scheduled to user processes, the remaining time
324is accounted to the ``idle'' process.
325.It Ic ps
326Display, in the lower window, the same information provided
327by the command
328.Xr ps 1
329with the flags
330.Fl aux .
331.Pp
332The following command is specific to the
333.Ic ps
334display; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
335.Pp
336.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
337.It Cm user Ar name
338Limit the list of processes displayed to those owned by user
339.Ar name .
340If
341.Ar name
342is specified as `+', processes owned by any user are displayed (default).
343.El
344.It Ic swap
345Show information about swap space usage on all the
346swap areas configured with
347.Xr swapctl 8 .
348The first column is the device name of the partition.
349The next column is the total space available in the partition.
350The
351.Ar Used
352column indicates the total blocks used so far;
353the graph shows the percentage of space in use on each partition.
354If there are more than one swap partition in use,
355a total line is also shown.
356Areas known to the kernel, but not in use are shown as not available.
357.It Ic vmstat
358Take over the entire display and show a (rather crowded) compendium
359of statistics related to virtual memory usage, process scheduling,
360device interrupts, system name translation caching, disk
361.Tn I/O
362etc.
363.Pp
364The upper left quadrant of the screen shows the number
365of users logged in and the load average over the last one, five,
366and fifteen minute intervals.
367Below this line are statistics on memory utilization.
368The first row of the table reports memory usage only among
369active processes, that is processes that have run in the previous
370twenty seconds.
371The second row reports on memory usage of all processes.
372The first column reports on the number of physical pages
373claimed by processes.
374The second column reports the number of physical pages that
375are devoted to read only text pages.
376The third and fourth columns report the same two figures for
377virtual pages, that is the number of pages that would be
378needed if all processes had all of their pages.
379Finally the last column shows the number of physical pages
380on the free list.
381.Pp
382Below the memory display is a list of the
383average number of processes (over the last refresh interval)
384that are runnable (`r'), in page wait (`p'),
385in disk wait other than paging (`d'),
386sleeping (`s'), and swapped out but desiring to run (`w').
387Below the queue length listing is a numerical listing and
388a bar graph showing the amount of
389system (shown as `='), user (shown as `\*[Gt]'),
390nice (shown as `-'), and idle time (shown as ` ').
391.Pp
392Next to the process statistics is a column that
393lists the average number of context switches (`Csw'),
394traps (`Trp'; includes page faults), system calls (`Sys'), interrupts (`Int'),
395network software interrupts (`Sof'),
396page faults (`Flt').
397.Pp
398Below the process display are statistics on name translations.
399It lists the number of names translated in the previous interval,
400the number and percentage of the translations that were
401handled by the system wide name translation cache, and
402the number and percentage of the translations that were
403handled by the per process name translation cache.
404.Pp
405At the bottom left is the disk usage display.
406It reports the number of seeks, transfers, number
407of kilobyte blocks transferred per second averaged over the
408refresh period of the display (by default, five seconds), and
409the time spent in disk accesses.
410Note that the system only keeps statistics on at most four disks.
411.Pp
412Under the date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
413on paging and swapping activity.
414The first two columns report the average number of pages
415brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
416due to page faults and the paging daemon.
417The third and fourth columns report the average number of pages
418brought in and out per second over the last refresh interval
419due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.
420The first row of the display shows the average
421number of disk transfers per second over the last refresh interval;
422the second row of the display shows the average
423number of pages transferred per second over the last refresh interval.
424.Pp
425Below the paging statistics is another columns of paging data.
426From top to bottom, these represent average numbers of copy on write faults
427(`cow'), object cache lookups (`objlk'), object cache hits (`objht'),
428pages zero filled on demand (`zfodw'), number zfod's created (`nzfod'),
429percentage of zfod's used (`%zfod'), number of kernel pages (`kern'),
430number of wired pages (`wire'), number of active pages (`act'), number
431of inactive pages (`inact'), number of free pages (`free'), pages freed
432by daemon (`daefr'), pages freed by exiting processes (`prcfr'), number
433of pages reactived from freelist (`react'), scans in page out daemon
434(`scan'), revolutions of the hand (`hdrev'), and intransit blocking page
435faults (`intrn'), per second over the refresh period.
436Note that the `%zfod' percentage is usually less than 100%,
437however it may exceed 100% if a large number of requests
438are actually used long after they were set up during a
439period when no new pages are being set up.
440Thus this figure is most interesting when observed over
441a long time period, such as from boot time
442(see below on getting such a display).
443.Pp
444Running down the right hand side of the display is a breakdown
445of the interrupts being handled by the system.
446At the top of the list is the total interrupts per second
447over the time interval.
448The rest of the column breaks down the total on a device
449by device basis.
450Only devices that have interrupted at least once since boot time are shown.
451.El
452.Pp
453Commands to switch between displays may be abbreviated to the
454minimum unambiguous prefix; for example, ``io'' for ``iostat''.
455Certain information may be discarded when the screen size is
456insufficient for display.
457For example, on a machine with 10 drives the
458.Ic iostat
459bar graph displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.
460When a bar graph would overflow the allotted screen space it is
461truncated and the actual value is printed ``over top'' of the bar.
462.Pp
463The following commands are common to each display which shows
464information about disk drives.
465These commands are used to select a set of drives to report on,
466should your system have more drives configured than can normally
467be displayed on the screen.
468.Pp
469.Bl -tag -width Tx -compact
470.It Cm ignore Op Ar drives
471Do not display information about the drives indicated.s
472Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
473.It Cm display Op Ar drives
474Display information about the drives indicated.
475Multiple drives may be specified, separated by spaces.
476.El
477.Pp
478The following commands are specific to the
479.Ic inet.* ,
480.Ic inet6.* ,
481.Ic ipsec
482and
483.Ic vmstat
484displays; the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied.
485.Pp
486.Bl -tag -width Ar -compact
487.It Cm boot
488Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.
489.It Cm run
490Display statistics as a running total from the point this
491command is given.
492.It Cm time
493Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the default).
494.It Cm zero
495Reset running statistics to zero.
496.El
497.Sh FILES
498.Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
499.It Pa /netbsd
500For the namelist.
501.It Pa /dev/kmem
502For information in main memory.
503.It Pa /dev/drum
504For information about swapped out processes.
505.It Pa /etc/hosts
506For host names.
507.It Pa /etc/networks
508For network names.
509.It Pa /etc/services
510For port names.
511.El
512.Sh NOTES
513Much of the information that
514.Nm
515.Ic vmstat
516uses is obtained from
517.Cm struct vmmeter cnt .
518.Sh SEE ALSO
519.Xr netstat 1 ,
520.Xr ps 1 ,
521.Xr top 1 ,
522.Xr vmstat 1 ,
523.Xr iostat 8 ,
524.Xr pstat 8
525.Sh HISTORY
526The
527.Nm
528program appeared in
529.Bx 4.3 .
530.Sh BUGS
531Consumes CPU resources and thus may skew statistics.
532.Pp
533Certain displays presume a minimum of 80 characters per line.
534.Pp
535The
536.Ic vmstat
537display looks out of place because it is (it was added in as
538a separate display from what used to be a different program).
539