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diff --git a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48ef627 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)iostat.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dt IOSTAT 8 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm iostat +.Nd report +.Tn I/O +statistics +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm iostat +.Op Fl c Ar count +.Op Fl M Ar core +.Op Fl N Ar system +.Op Fl w Ar wait +.Op Ar drives +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Iostat +displays kernel +.Tn I/O +statistics on terminal, disk and cpu +operations. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width flag +.It Fl c +Repeat the display +.Ar count +times. +The first display is for the time since a reboot and each subsequent +report is for the time period since the last display. +If no +.Ar wait +interval is specified, the default is 1 second. +.It Fl M +Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core +instead of the default +.Dq Pa /dev/kmem . +.It Fl N +Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default +.Dq Pa /vmunix . +.It Fl w +Pause +.Ar wait +seconds between each display. +If no repeat +.Ar count +is specified, the default is infinity. +.El +.Pp +.Nm Iostat +displays its information in the following format: +.Bl -tag -width flag +.It tty +.Bl -tag -width indent -compact +.It tin +characters read from terminals +.It tout +characters written to terminals +.El +.It disks +Disk operations (this field is system dependent). +The header of the field is the disk name and unit number. +If more than four disk drives are configured in the system, +.Nm iostat +displays only the first four drives. +To force +.Nm iostat +to display specific drives, their names may be supplied on the command +line. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width indent -compact +.It sps +sectors transferred per second +.It tps +transfers per second +.It msps +milliseconds per average seek (including implied +seeks and rotational latency) +.El +.It cpu +.Bl -tag -width indent -compact +.It \&us +% of cpu time in user mode +.It \&ni +% of cpu time in user mode running niced processes +.It \&sy +% of cpu time in system mode +.It \&id +% of cpu time in idle mode +.El +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact +.It Pa /vmunix +Default kernel namelist. +.It Pa /dev/kmem +Default memory file. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr fstat 1 , +.Xr netstat 1 , +.Xr nfsstat 1 , +.Xr \&ps 1 , +.Xr systat 1 , +.Xr vmstat 1 , +.Xr pstat 8 +.Pp +The sections starting with ``Interpreting system activity'' in +.%T "Installing and Operating 4.3BSD" . |