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iostat(8) [netbsd man page]

IOSTAT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 IOSTAT(8)

NAME

     iostat -- report I/O statistics

SYNOPSIS

     iostat [-CdDITx] [-c count] [-M core] [-N system] [-w wait] [drives]

DESCRIPTION

     iostat displays kernel I/O statistics on terminal, disk and CPU operations.  By default, iostat displays one line of statistics averaged over
     the machine's run time.  The use of -c presents successive lines averaged over the wait period.  The -I option causes iostat to print raw,
     unaveraged values.

     Only the last disk option specified (-d, -D, or -x) is used.

     The options are as follows:

     -c count	 Repeat the display count times.  Unless the -I flag is in effect, the first display is for the time since a reboot and each sub-
		 sequent report is for the time period since the last display.	If no wait interval is specified, the default is 1 second.

     -C 	 Show CPU statistics.  This is enabled by default unless the -d, -D, -T, or -x flags are used.

     -d 	 Show disk statistics.	This is the default.  Displays kilobytes per transfer, number of transfers, and megabytes transferred.
		 Use of this flag disables display of CPU and tty statistics.

     -D 	 Show alternative disk statistics.  Displays kilobytes transferred, number of transfers, and time spent in transfers.  Use of this
		 flag disables the default display.

     -I 	 Show the running total values, rather than an average.

     -M core	 Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default ``/dev/mem''.

     -N system	 Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default ``/netbsd''.

     -T 	 Show tty statistics.  This is enabled by default unless the -C, -d, or -D flags are used.

     -w wait	 Pause wait seconds between each display.  If no repeat count is specified, the default is infinity.

     -x 	 Show extended disk statistics.  Each disk is displayed on a line of its own with all available statistics.  This option overrides
		 all other display options, and all disks are displayed unless specific disks are provided as arguments.  Additionally, separate
		 read and write statistics are displayed.

     iostat displays its information in the following format:

     tty
	   tin	   characters read from terminals
	   tout    characters written to terminals

     disks
	   Disk operations.  The header of the field is the disk name and unit number.	If more than four disk drives are configured in the sys-
	   tem, iostat displays only the first four drives.  To force iostat to display specific drives, their names may be supplied on the com-
	   mand line.

	   KB/t    Kilobytes transferred per disk transfer
	   t/s	   transfers per second
	   MB/s    Megabytes transferred per second

	   The alternative display format, (selected with -D), presents the following values.
	   KB	   Kilobytes transferred
	   xfr	   Disk transfers
	   time    Seconds spent in disk activity

     cpu
	   us	   % of CPU time in user mode
	   ni	   % of CPU time in user mode running niced processes
	   sy	   % of CPU time in system mode
	   id	   % of CPU time in idle mode

FILES

     /netbsd   Default kernel namelist.
     /dev/mem  Default memory file.

SEE ALSO

     fstat(1), netstat(1), nfsstat(1), ps(1), systat(1), vmstat(1), pstat(8)

     The sections starting with ``Interpreting system activity'' in Installing and Operating 4.3BSD.

HISTORY

     iostat appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.  The -x option was added in NetBSD 1.4.

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								   March 1, 2003							       BSD

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NAME

       iostat - report I/O statistics

SYNOPSIS

       iostat [ option ] ...  [ interval [ count ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       Iostat  delves into the system and reports certain statistics kept about input-output activity.	Information is kept about up to three dif-
       ferent disks (RF, RK, RP) and about typewriters.  For each disk, IO completions and number of words transferred are counted; for  typewrit-
       ers  collectively, the number of input and output characters are counted.  Also, each sixtieth of a second, the state of each disk is exam-
       ined and a tally is made if the disk is active.	The tally goes into one of four categories, depending on whether the system  is  executing
       in  user  mode, in `nice' (background) user mode, in system mode, or idle.  From all these numbers and from the known transfer rates of the
       devices it is possible to determine information such as the degree of IO overlap and average seek times for each device.

       The optional interval argument causes iostat to report once each interval seconds.  The first report is for  all time since  a  reboot  and
       each subsequent report is for the last interval only.

       The optional count argument restricts the number of reports.

       With  no  option  argument iostat reports for each disk the number of transfers per minute, the milliseconds per average seek, and the mil-
       liseconds per data transfer exclusive of seek time.  It also gives the percentage of time the system has spend in each of  the  four  cate-
       gories mentioned above.

       The following options are available:

       -t     Report the number of characters of terminal IO per second as well.

       -i     Report  the  percentage  of  time  spend in each of the four categories mentioned above, the percentage of time each disk was active
	      (seeking or transferring), the percentage of time any disk was active, and the percentage of time spent in `IO wait:' idle, but with
	      a disk active.

       -s     Report  the  raw	timing information: 32 numbers indicating the percentage of time spent in each of the possible configurations of 4
	      system states and 8 IO states (3 disks each active or not).

       -b     Report on the usage of IO buffers.

FILES

       /dev/mem, /unix

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