SYSTAT(1)                                                            SYSTAT(1)


NAME
       systat - display system statistics on a crt

SYNOPSIS
       systat [ -display ] [ refresh-interval ]

DESCRIPTION
       Systat  displays various system statistics in a screen oriented fashion
       using the curses screen display library, curses(3X).

       While systat is running the screen is usually divided into two  windows
       (an exception is the vmstat display which uses the entire screen).  The
       upper window depicts the current system load average.  The  information
       displayed  in  the  lower  window may vary, depending on user commands.
       The last line on the screen is reserved for user input and  error  mes‐
       sages.

       By default systat displays the processes getting the largest percentage
       of the processor in the lower window.  Other displays show  swap  space
       usage,  disk i/o statistics (a la iostat(1)), virtual memory statistics
       (a la vmstat(1)), network ‘‘mbuf’’ utilization, and network connections
       (a la netstat(1)).

       Input  is  interpreted  at  two different levels.  A ‘‘global’’ command
       interpreter processes all keyboard input.  If this command  interpreter
       fails to recognize a command, the input line is passed to a per-display
       command interpreter.  This allows each display to have certain display-
       specific commands.

       Certain characters cause immediate action by systat.  These are

       ^L     Refresh the screen.

       ^G     Print  the  name  of  the current ‘‘display’’ being shown in the
              lower window and the refresh interval.

       ^Z     Stop systat.

       :      Move the cursor to the command line and interpret the input line
              typed  as a command.  While entering a command the current char‐
              acter erase, word erase, and line kill characters may be used.

       The following commands are interpreted by the ‘‘global’’ command inter‐
       preter.

       help
              Print the names of the available displays on the command line.

       load
              Print the load average over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes on the
              command line.

       stop
              Stop refreshing the screen.

       [ start ] [ number ]
              Start (continue) refreshing the screen.  If a  second,  numeric,
              argument is provided it is interpreted as a refresh interval (in
              seconds).  Supplying only a number will set the refresh interval
              to this value.

       quit
              Exit systat.  (This may be abbreviated to q.)

       The available displays are:

       pigs
              Display,  in  the lower window, those processes resident in main
              memory and getting the largest portion  of  the  processor  (the
              default  display).   When  less  than  100%  of the processor is
              scheduled to user processes, the remaining time is accounted  to
              the ‘‘idle’’ process.

       iostat
              Display, in the lower window, statistics about processor use and
              disk throughput.  Statistics on  processor  use  appear  as  bar
              graphs  of the amount of time executing in user mode (‘‘user’’),
              in user mode running low priority processes (‘‘nice’’), in  sys‐
              tem  mode (‘‘system’’), and idle (‘‘idle’’).  Statistics on disk
              throughput show, for each drive, kilobytes of data  transferred,
              number of disk transactions performed, and average seek time (in
              milliseconds).  This information may be displayed as bar  graphs
              or  as  rows  of  numbers which scroll downward.  Bar graphs are
              shown by default; commands specific to  this  display  are  dis‐
              cussed below.

       swap
              Display,  in  the  lower  window, swap space in use on each swap
              device configured.  Two sets of bar graphs are shown.  The upper
              graph  displays  swap  space  allocated  to  pure  text segments
              (code), the lower graph displays space allocated  to  stack  and
              data segments.  Allocated space is sorted by its size into buck‐
              ets of size dmmin, dmmin*2, dmmin*4, up  to  dmmax  (to  reflect
              allocation  policies  imposed  by the system).  The disk segment
              size, in sectors, is displayed along the left hand side  of  the
              text,  and  data  and stack graphs.  Space allocated to the user
              structure and page tables is not currently accounted for.

       mbufs
              Display, in the lower window, the number of mbufs allocated  for
              particular uses, i.e. data, socket structures, etc.

       vmstat
              Take  over  the  entire display and show a (rather crowded) com‐
              pendium of statistics related to virtual memory  usage,  process
              scheduling, device interrupts, system name translation cacheing,
              disk i/o, etc.

              The upper left quadrant of the screen shows the number of  users
              logged in and the load average over the last one, five, and fif‐
              teen minute intervals.  Below this line are statistics on memory
              utilization.   The  first  row of the table reports memory usage
              only among active processes, that is processes that have run  in
              the  previous  twenty seconds.  The second row reports on memory
              usage of all processes.  The first column reports on the  number
              of  physical  pages  claimed  by  processes.   The second column
              reports the number of physical pages that are  devoted  to  read
              only  text  pages.  The third and fourth columns report the same
              two figures for virtual pages, that is the number of pages  that
              would  be  needed  if  all  processes  had  all  of their pages.
              Finally the last column shows the number of  physical  pages  on
              the free list.

              Below  the memory display is the disk usage display.  It reports
              the number of seeks, transfers, and number  of  kilobyte  blocks
              transferred  per  second averaged over the refresh period of the
              display (by default, five seconds).   For  some  disks  it  also
              reports the average milliseconds per seek.  Note that the system
              only keeps statistics on at most four disks.

              Below the disk display is a list of the average number  of  pro‐
              cesses (over the last refresh interval) that are runnable (‘r’),
              in page wait (‘p’), in disk wait other than paging (‘d’), sleep‐
              ing (‘s’), and swapped out but desiring to run (‘w’).  Below the
              queue length listing is a numerical  listing  and  a  bar  graph
              showing  the  amount  of  system  (shown as ‘=’), user (shown as
              ‘>’), nice (shown as ‘-’), and idle time (shown as ‘ ’).

              At the bottom left are  statistics  on  name  translations.   It
              lists  the  number of names translated in the previous interval,
              the number and percentage of the translations that were  handled
              by  the  system  wide name translation cache, and the number and
              percentage of the translations that were handled by the per pro‐
              cess name translation cache.

              Under  the  date in the upper right hand quadrant are statistics
              on paging and swapping activity.  The first two  columns  report
              the  average  number of pages brought in and out per second over
              the last refresh interval due to page faults and the paging dae‐
              mon.   The third and fourth columns report the average number of
              pages brought in and out per second over the last refresh inter‐
              val  due to swap requests initiated by the scheduler.  The first
              row of the display shows the average number  of  disk  transfers
              per second over the last refresh interval; the second row of the
              display shows the average number of pages transferred per second
              over the last refresh interval.

              Below the paging statistics is a line listing the average number
              of  total  reclaims  (’Rec’),  intransit  blocking  page  faults
              (‘It’),  swap text pages found in free list (‘F/S’), file system
              text pages found in free list (‘F/F’), reclaims from  free  list
              (‘RFL’), pages freed by the clock daemon (‘Fre’), and sequential
              process pages freed (‘SFr’) per second over the  refresh  inter‐
              val.

              Below  this  line  are  statistics on the average number of zero
              filled pages (‘zf’) and demand filled text pages (‘xf’) per sec‐
              ond over the refresh period.  The first row indicates the number
              of requests that were resolved, the second row shows the  number
              that were set up, and the last row shows the percentage of setup
              requests were actually used.  Note that this percentage is  usu‐
              ally  less than 100%, however it may exceed 100% if a large num‐
              ber of requests are actually used long after they  were  set  up
              during  a  period when no new pages are being set up.  Thus this
              figure is most  interesting  when  observed  over  a  long  time
              period, such as from boot time (see below on getting such a dis‐
              play).

              Below the page fill statistics is a column that lists the  aver‐
              age  number  of  context switches (‘Csw’), traps (‘Trp’), system
              calls (‘Sys’), interrupts (‘Int’), characters output to DZ ports
              using  pseudo-DMA (‘Pdm’), page faults (‘Flt’), pages scanned by
              the page daemon (‘Scn’), and revolutions of  the  page  daemon’s
              hand (‘Rev’) per second over the refresh interval.

              Running  down  the right hand side of the display is a breakdown
              of the interrupts being handled by the system.  At  the  top  of
              the list is the total interrupts per second over the time inter‐
              val.  The rest of the column breaks down the total on  a  device
              by  device  basis.   Only devices that have interrupted at least
              once since boot time are shown.

       netstat
              Display, in the lower window, network connections.  By  default,
              network  servers  awaiting  requests  are  not  displayed.  Each
              address is displayed in  the  format  ‘‘host.port’’,  with  each
              shown  symbolically,  when  possible.   It  is  possible to have
              addresses displayed numerically, limit the display to a  set  of
              ports,  hosts, and/or protocols; see the list of commands below.

       Commands to switch between displays may be abbreviated to  the  minimum
       unambiguous prefix; for example, ‘‘io’’ for ‘‘iostat’’.  Certain infor‐
       mation may be discarded when the screen size is insufficient  for  dis‐
       play.   For  example,  on a machine with 10 drives the iostat bar graph
       displays only 3 drives on a 24 line terminal.  When a bar  graph  would
       overflow the allotted screen space it is truncated and the actual value
       is printed ‘‘over top’’ of the bar.

       The following commands are specific to the iostat display; the  minimum
       unambiguous prefix may be supplied.

       numbers
              Show  the  disk i/o statistics in numeric form.  Values are dis‐
              played in numeric columns which scroll downward.

       bars   Show the disk i/o statistics in bar graph form (default).

       msps   Toggle the display of average seek time (the default is  to  not
              display seek times).

       The  following commands are specific to the vmstat display; the minimum
       unambiguous prefix may be supplied.

       boot   Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted.

       run    Display statistics as a running total from the point  this  com‐
              mand is given.

       time   Display  statistics  averaged  over  the  refresh  interval (the
              default).

       zero   Reset running statistics to zero.

       The following commands are common to each display which shows  informa‐
       tion  about  disk  drives.   These commands are used to select a set of
       drives to report on, should your system  have  more  drives  configured
       than can normally be displayed on the screen.

       ignore [ drives ]
              Do not display information about the drives indicated.  Multiple
              drives may be specified, separated by spaces.

       display [ drives ]
              Display information about the drives indicated.  Multiple drives
              may be specified, separated by spaces.

       The  following  command is specific to the netstat display; the minimum
       unambiguous prefix may be supplied.

       all    Toggle the displaying  of  server  processes  awaiting  requests
              (this is the equivalent of the -a flag to netstat(1)).

       numbers
              Display network addresses numerically.

       names  Display network addresses symbolically.

       The remaining commands are common to displays which report network con‐
       nections (currently only the netstat display).   These commands may  be
       used to select a specific set of connections for systat to report on.

       protocol
              Display  only  network  connections using the indicated protocol
              (currently either ‘‘tcp’’ or ‘‘udp’’).

       ignore [items]
              Do not display information about connections associated with the
              specified  hosts  or ports.  Hosts and ports may be specified by
              name (‘‘ucbmonet’’, ‘‘ftp’’), or  numerically.   Host  addresses
              use  the Internet dot notation (‘‘128.32.0.9’’).  Multiple items
              may be specified with a single command by separating  them  with
              spaces.

       display [items]
              Display  information  about  the connections associated with the
              specified hosts or ports.  As for ignore, items may be names  or
              numbers.

       show [ports|hosts]
              Show,  on  the  command  line, the currently selected protocols,
              hosts, and ports.  Hosts and ports which are being  ignored  are
              prefixed  with a ‘!’.  If ports or hosts is supplied as an argu‐
              ment to show, then only the requested information will  be  dis‐
              played.

       reset  Reset  the  port,  host, and protocol matching mechanisms to the
              default (any protocol, port, or host).

FILES
       /vmunix         for the namelist
       /dev/kmem       for information in main memory
       /dev/drum       for information about swapped out processes
       /etc/hosts      for host names
       /etc/networks   for network names
       /etc/services   for port names

AUTHOR
       The unknown hacker.  The pigs display is derived from a program of  the
       same name written by Bill Reeves.

BUGS
       Takes  2-10  percent of the cpu.  Certain displays presume a 24 line by
       80 character terminal.  The swap space display should account for space
       allocated  to  the  user structure and page tables.  The vmstat display
       looks out of place because it is (it was added in as a separate display
       rather than create a new program).

       The  whole  thing  is pretty hokey and was included in the distribution
       under serious duress.


4.3 Berkeley Distribution        May 12, 1986                        SYSTAT(1)
 
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