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PSTAT(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual PSTAT(8)
NAME
pstat - display system data structures
SYNOPSIS
pstat [-Tfknstv] [-M core] [-N system]
DESCRIPTION
Pstat displays open file entry, swap space utilization, terminal state,
and vnode data structures. If corefile is given, the information is
sought there, otherwise in /dev/kmem. The required namelist is taken from
/bsd unless system is specified.
The following options are available:
-T Prints the number of used and free slots for open files, used vn-
odes, and swap space. It is useful for checking to see how large
system tables become if the system is under heavy load.
-f Print the open file table with these headings:
LOC The core location of this table entry.
TYPE The type of object the file table entry points to.
FLG Miscellaneous state variables encoded thus:
R open for reading
W open for writing
A open for appending
S shared lock present
X exclusive lock present
I signal pgrp when data ready
CNT Number of processes that know this open file.
MSG Number of messages outstanding for this file.
DATA The location of the vnode table entry or socket structure
for this file.
OFFSET The file offset (see lseek(2)).
-k Use 1K-byte blocks.
-n Print devices by major/minor number rather than by name.
-s Print information about swap space usage on all the swap areas
compiled into the kernel. The first column is the device name of
the partition. The next column is the total space available in
the partition. The Used column indicates the total blocks used
so far; the Available column indicates how much space is remain-
ing on each partition. The Capacity reports the percentage of
space used.
If more than one partition is configured into the system, totals
for all of the statistics will be reported in the final line of
the report.
-t Print table for terminals with these headings:
LINE Physical device name.
RAW Number of characters in raw input queue.
CAN Number of characters in canonicalized input queue.
OUT Number of characters in output queue.
HWT High water mark for output.
LWT Low water mark for output.
COL Calculated column position of terminal.
STATE Miscellaneous state variables encoded thus:
T delay timeout in progress
W waiting for open to complete
O open
F outq has been flushed during DMA
C carrier is on
T delay timeout in progress
F outq has been flushed during DMA
B busy doing output
A process is awaiting output
X open for exclusive use
S output stopped
K further input blocked
Y tty in async I/O mode
SESS Enclosing session.
PGRP Process group for which this is controlling terminal.
DISC Line discipline; `term' for TTYDISC (see termios(4)), `tab' for
TABLDISC (see tb(4)), `slip' for SLIPDISC (see sl(4)), `ppp'
for PPPDISC (see ppp(4)), `strip' for STRIPDISC (see strip(4)).
-v Print the active vnodes. Each group of vnodes corresponding to a
particular filesystem is preceded by a two line header. The
first line consists of the following:
*** MOUNT fstype from on on fsflags
where fstype is one of adosfs, afs, cd9660, ext2fs, fdesc, ffs,
kernfs, lfs, lofs, mfs, msdos, nfs, null, portal, procfs, umap,
union; from is the filesystem is mounted from; on is the directo-
ry the filesystem is mounted on; and fsflags is a list of option-
al flags applied to the mount (see mount(8)). the first part of
which are fixed, and the second part are filesystem type specif-
ic. The headers common to all vnodes are:
ADDR Location of this vnode.
TYP File type.
VFLAG A list of letters representing vnode flags:
R VROOT root of its file system.
T VTEXT pure text prototype.
L VXLOCK locked to change underlying type.
W VXWANT process is waiting for vnode.
S VSYSTEM vnode being used by kernel.
A VALIASED vnode has an alias
B VBWAIT waiting for output to complete
D VDIROP lfs vnode involved in directory op.
USE The number of references to this vnode.
HOLD The number of I/O buffers held by this vnode.
FILEID The vnode fileid. In the case of ffs this is the inode
number.
IFLAG Miscellaneous filesystem specific state variables encoded
thus:
For ffs:
L locked
U update time (fs(5)) must be corrected
A access time must be corrected
W wanted by another process (L flag is on)
C changed time must be corrected
S shared lock applied
E exclusive lock applied
Z someone waiting for a lock
M contains modifications
R has a rename in progress
For nfs:
W waiting for I/O buffer flush to complete
P I/O buffers being flushed
M locally modified data exists
E an earlier write failed
X non-cacheable lease (nqnfs)
O write lease (nqnfs)
G lease was evicted (nqnfs)
SIZ/RDEV
Number of bytes in an ordinary file, or major and
minor device of special file.
ENVIRONMENT
BLOCKSIZE If the environment variable BLOCKSIZE is set, and the -k op-
tion is not specified, the block counts will be displayed in
units of that size block.
FILES
/bsd namelist
/dev/kmem default source of tables
SEE ALSO
ps(1), systat(1), stat(2), fs(5), iostat(8), vmstat(8)
BUGS
Swap statistics are reported for all swap partitions compiled into the
kernel, regardless of whether those partitions are being used.
Does not understand NFS swap servers.
HISTORY
The pstat command appeared in 4.0BSD.
4th Berkeley Distribution April 19, 1994 3
Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others. |
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