PSTAT(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual PSTAT(8)
pstat - display system data structures
pstat [-fknsTtv] [-d format] [-M core] [-N system] [symbols]
pstat displays open file entry, swap space utilization, terminal state,
and vnode data structure information. If core is given, the information
is sought there, otherwise in the running kernel via /dev/kmem. The
required namelist is taken from the running kernel unless system is
The options are as follows:
Print the values of symbols using the specified format. format
is a printf(3)-style format, without the leading percent or
precision specifiers, such as s, p, or llx. Symbol names are
read from the remaining command line arguments. Addresses may
also be specified in hex.
-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
L exclusive or shared lock present
I signal pgrp when data ready
d deferred for next AF_UNIX garbage collection pass
l file descriptor slot is larval
m marked during AF_UNIX garbage collection pass
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)). This information is only
visible to the user or superuser.
-k Use 1K-byte blocks.
Extract values associated with the name list from the specified
core instead of the running kernel.
Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the
-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
remaining 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
-T Prints the number of used and free slots for open files, used
vnodes, and swap space. It is useful for checking to see how
large system tables become if the system is under heavy load.
-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:
W waiting for open to complete
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
D next character is escaped lowercase special
E printing erase sequence
L next character is literal
P retyping suspended input
N counting tab width, ignoring output flush
SESS Enclosing session.
PGID Process group for which this is controlling terminal.
DISC Line discipline: `term' for TTYDISC (see termios(4)),
`slip' for SLIPDISC (see sl(4)), `ppp' for PPPDISC (see
ppp(4)), `strip' for STRIPDISC, and `nmea' for NMEADISC
-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 the file systems supported by the kernel;
from is the partition the filesystem is mounted from; on is the
directory the filesystem is mounted on; and fsflags is a list of
optional flags applied to the mount (see mount(8)). The second
line is a header for the individual fields, the first part of
which are fixed, and the second part are filesystem type
specific. 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.
S VSYSTEM vnode being used by kernel.
I VISTTY vnode represents a tty.
L VXLOCK locked to change underlying type.
W VXWANT process is waiting for vnode.
B VBWAIT waiting for output to complete.
A VALIASED vnode has an alias.
F VONFREELIST vnode is on a free list.
l VLOCKSWORK FS supports locking discipline.
s VONSYNCLIST vnode is on syncer worklist.
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
IFLAG Miscellaneous filesystem specific state variables encoded
A access time must be corrected
C changed time must be corrected
U update time (fs(5)) must be corrected
R has a rename in progress
M contains modifications
S shared lock applied
E exclusive lock applied
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)
A special file accessed
U special file updated
C special file times changed
Number of bytes in an ordinary file, or major and minor
device of special file.
BLOCKSIZE If the environment variable BLOCKSIZE is set, and the -k
option is not specified, the block counts will be displayed in
units of that size block.
fstat(1), netstat(1), procmap(1), ps(1), systat(1), tcpbench(1), top(1),
stat(2), printf(3), fs(5), iostat(8), vmstat(8)
K. Thompson, UNIX Implementation.
The pstat command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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.
OpenBSD 5.4 January 17, 2013 OpenBSD 5.4
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