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NAME

       pidstat - Report statistics for Linux tasks.

SYNOPSIS

       pidstat [ -d ] [ -H ] [ -h ] [ -I ] [ -l ] [ -R ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -t ] [ -U [ username ] ]
       [ -u ] [ -V ] [ -v ] [ -w ] [ -C comm ] [ -G process_name ] [ --human ] [ -p { pid  [,...]
       | SELF | ALL } ] [ -T { TASK | CHILD | ALL } ] [ interval [ count ] ] [ -e program args ]

DESCRIPTION

       The pidstat command is used for monitoring individual tasks currently being managed by the
       Linux kernel.  It writes to standard output activities for every task selected with option
       -p  or  for  every  task  managed  by the Linux kernel if option -p ALL has been used. Not
       selecting any tasks is equivalent to specifying -p ALL but only active tasks  (tasks  with
       non-zero statistics values) will appear in the report.

       The pidstat command can also be used for monitoring the child processes of selected tasks.
       Read about option -T below.

       The interval parameter specifies the amount of time in seconds  between  each  report.   A
       value  of  0  (or no parameters at all) indicates that tasks statistics are to be reported
       for the time since system startup  (boot).   The  count  parameter  can  be  specified  in
       conjunction with the interval parameter if this one is not set to zero. The value of count
       determines the number of reports generated at interval  seconds  apart.  If  the  interval
       parameter  is specified without the count parameter, the pidstat command generates reports
       continuously.

       You can select information about specific task activities using flags.  Not specifying any
       flags selects only CPU activity.

OPTIONS

       -C comm
              Display only tasks whose command name includes the string comm.  This string can be
              a regular expression.

       -d     Report I/O statistics (kernels 2.6.20 and later only).  The following values may be
              displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task being monitored.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task being monitored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

              kB_rd/s
                     Number of kilobytes the task has caused to be read from disk per second.

              kB_wr/s
                     Number  of  kilobytes  the  task has caused, or shall cause to be written to
                     disk per second.

              kB_ccwr/s
                     Number of kilobytes whose writing to disk has been cancelled  by  the  task.
                     This  may  occur when the task truncates some dirty pagecache. In this case,
                     some IO which another task has been accounted for will not be happening.

              iodelay
                     Block I/O delay of the task being monitored, measured in clock  ticks.  This
                     metric  includes  the delays spent waiting for sync block I/O completion and
                     for swapin block I/O completion.

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

       -e program args
              Execute program with given arguments args and monitor  it  with  pidstat.   pidstat
              stops when program terminates.

       -G process_name
              Display  only  processes whose command name includes the string process_name.  This
              string can be a regular expression. If option -t is used together  with  option  -G
              then  the  threads  belonging  to  that  process  are also displayed (even if their
              command name doesn't include the string process_name).

       -H     Display timestamp in seconds since the epoch.

       -h     Display all activities horizontally on a single line, with no average statistics at
              the  end  of  the  report. This is intended to make it easier to be parsed by other
              programs.

       --human
              Print sizes in human readable format (e.g. 1k, 1.23M, etc.)   The  units  displayed
              with  this  option  supersede any other default units (e.g.  kilobytes, sectors...)
              associated with the metrics.

       -I     In an SMP environment, indicate that tasks CPU usage (as displayed by option  -u  )
              should be divided by the total number of processors.

       -l     Display the process command name and all its arguments.

       -p { pid [,...] | SELF | ALL }
              Select  tasks  (processes)  for  which  statistics  are to be reported.  pid is the
              process identification number. The SELF keyword indicates that statistics are to be
              reported  for  the  pidstat  process itself, whereas the ALL keyword indicates that
              statistics are to be reported for all the tasks managed by the system.

       -R     Report realtime priority and scheduling policy information.  The  following  values
              may be displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task being monitored.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task being monitored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

              prio
                     The realtime priority of the task being monitored.

              policy
                     The scheduling policy of the task being monitored.

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

       -r     Report page faults and memory utilization.

              When  reporting  statistics  for  individual  tasks,  the  following  values may be
              displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task being monitored.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task being monitored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

              minflt/s
                     Total number of minor faults the task has made per second, those which  have
                     not required loading a memory page from disk.

              majflt/s
                     Total  number of major faults the task has made per second, those which have
                     required loading a memory page from disk.

              VSZ
                     Virtual Size: The virtual memory usage of entire task in kilobytes.

              RSS
                     Resident Set Size: The non-swapped physical  memory  used  by  the  task  in
                     kilobytes.

              %MEM
                     The tasks's currently used share of available physical memory.

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

              When  reporting  global  statistics for tasks and all their children, the following
              values may be displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task  which  is  being  monitored
                     together with its children.

              USER
                     The  name of the real user owning the task which is being monitored together
                     with its children.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task which is being monitored together with
                     its children.

              minflt-nr
                     Total  number  of  minor  faults  made by the task and all its children, and
                     collected during the interval of time.

              majflt-nr
                     Total number of major faults made by the task  and  all  its  children,  and
                     collected during the interval of time.

              Command
                     The  command  name  of  the  task which is being monitored together with its
                     children.

       -s     Report stack utilization.  The following values may be displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task being monitored.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task being monitored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

              StkSize
                     The amount of memory in kilobytes reserved for the task as  stack,  but  not
                     necessarily used.

              StkRef
                     The amount of memory in kilobytes used as stack, referenced by the task.

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

       -T { TASK | CHILD | ALL }
              This  option  specifies  what  has to be monitored by the pidstat command. The TASK
              keyword indicates that statistics are to be reported for individual tasks (this  is
              the  default  option) whereas the CHILD keyword indicates that statistics are to be
              globally reported for the selected tasks and all their children.  The  ALL  keyword
              indicates  that statistics are to be reported for individual tasks and globally for
              the selected tasks and their children.

              Note: Global statistics for tasks and all their children are not available for  all
              options  of pidstat.  Also these statistics are not necessarily relevant to current
              time interval: The statistics of  a  child  process  are  collected  only  when  it
              finishes or it is killed.

       -t     Also display statistics for threads associated with selected tasks.

              This option adds the following values to the reports:

              TGID
                     The identification number of the thread group leader.

              TID
                     The identification number of the thread being monitored.

       -U [ username ]
              Display  the  real  user  name of the tasks being monitored instead of the UID.  If
              username is specified,  then  only  tasks  belonging  to  the  specified  user  are
              displayed.

       -u     Report CPU utilization.

              When  reporting  statistics  for  individual  tasks,  the  following  values may be
              displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task being monitored.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task being monitored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

              %usr
                     Percentage of CPU used by  the  task  while  executing  at  the  user  level
                     (application),  with or without nice priority. Note that this field does NOT
                     include time spent running a virtual processor.

              %system
                     Percentage of CPU used by the task  while  executing  at  the  system  level
                     (kernel).

              %guest
                     Percentage  of  CPU  spent by the task in virtual machine (running a virtual
                     processor).

              %wait
                     Percentage of CPU spent by the task while waiting to run.

              %CPU
                     Total percentage of CPU time used by the task. In an  SMP  environment,  the
                     task's  CPU  usage will be divided by the total number of CPU's if option -I
                     has been entered on the command line.

              CPU
                     Processor number to which the task is attached.

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

              When reporting global statistics for tasks and all their  children,  the  following
              values may be displayed:

              UID
                     The  real  user  identification  number of the task which is being monitored
                     together with its children.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task which is being monitored  together
                     with its children.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task which is being monitored together with
                     its children.

              usr-ms
                     Total number of milliseconds spent by the task and all  its  children  while
                     executing  at  the  user level (application), with or without nice priority,
                     and collected during the interval of time. Note that  this  field  does  NOT
                     include time spent running a virtual processor.

              system-ms
                     Total  number  of  milliseconds spent by the task and all its children while
                     executing at the system level (kernel), and collected during the interval of
                     time.

              guest-ms
                     Total  number  of  milliseconds  spent  by  the task and all its children in
                     virtual machine (running a virtual processor).

              Command
                     The command name of the task which is  being  monitored  together  with  its
                     children.

       -V     Print version number then exit.

       -v     Report values of some kernel tables. The following values may be displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task being monitored.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task being monitored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

              threads
                     Number of threads associated with current task.

              fd-nr
                     Number of file descriptors associated with current task.

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

       -w     Report  task  switching  activity  (kernels  2.6.23 and later only).  The following
              values may be displayed:

              UID
                     The real user identification number of the task being monitored.

              USER
                     The name of the real user owning the task being monitored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

              cswch/s
                     Total number of voluntary context switches the  task  made  per  second.   A
                     voluntary  context  switch  occurs  when a task blocks because it requires a
                     resource that is unavailable.

              nvcswch/s
                     Total number of non voluntary context switches the task made per second.   A
                     involuntary context switch takes place when a task executes for the duration
                     of its time slice and then is forced to relinquish the processor.

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

ENVIRONMENT

       The pidstat command takes into account the following environment variables:

       S_COLORS
              When this variable is set, display statistics in color on the  terminal.   Possible
              values for this variable are never, always or auto (the latter is the default).

              Please note that the color (being red, yellow, or some other color) used to display
              a value is not indicative of any kind of issue simply because of the color. It only
              indicates different ranges of values.

       S_COLORS_SGR
              Specify the colors and other attributes used to display statistics on the terminal.
              Its  value  is  a  colon-separated  list   of   capabilities   that   defaults   to
              H=31;1:I=32;22:M=35;1:N=34;1:Z=34;22.  Supported capabilities are:

              H=     SGR  (Select Graphic Rendition) substring for percentage values greater than
                     or equal to 75%.

              I=     SGR substring for item values like PID, UID or CPU number.

              M=     SGR substring for percentage values in the range from 50% to 75%.

              N=     SGR substring for non-zero statistics values and for tasks names.

              Z=     SGR substring for zero values and for threads names.

       S_TIME_FORMAT
              If this variable exists and its value is  ISO  then  the  current  locale  will  be
              ignored  when printing the date in the report header.  The pidstat command will use
              the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD) instead.  The timestamp  will  also  be  compliant
              with ISO 8601 format.

EXAMPLES

       pidstat 2 5
              Display  five  reports of CPU statistics for every active task in the system at two
              second intervals.

       pidstat -r -p 1643 2 5
              Display five reports of page faults and memory  statistics  for  PID  1643  at  two
              second intervals.

       pidstat -C "fox|bird" -r -p ALL
              Display  global  page  faults  and  memory  statistics  for all the processes whose
              command name includes the string "fox" or "bird".

       pidstat -T CHILD -r 2 5
              Display five reports of page faults statistics at  two  second  intervals  for  the
              child  processes  of  all  tasks  in the system. Only child processes with non-zero
              statistics values are displayed.

BUGS

       /proc filesystem must be mounted for the pidstat command to work.

FILES

       /proc contains various files with system statistics.

AUTHOR

       Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr)

SEE ALSO

       sar(1), top(1), ps(1), mpstat(1), iostat(1), vmstat(8)

       http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/