mpstat(1)
NAME
mpstat - Report processors related statistics.
SYNOPSIS
mpstat [ -A ] [ -u ] [ -V ] [ -I { keyword [,...] | ALL } ] [ -P { cpu
[,...] | ON | ALL } ] [ interval [ count ] ]
DESCRIPTION
The mpstat command writes to standard output activities for each available processor, processor 0 being the first one. Global average activities among all processors are also reported. The mpstat command can be used both on SMP and UP machines, but in the latter, only global average activities will be printed. If no activity has been selected, then the default report is the CPU utilization report. The interval parameter specifies the amount of time in seconds between each report. A value of 0 (or no parameters at all) indicates that processors 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 mpstat command generates reports continuously.
OPTIONS
-A This option is equivalent to specifying -u -I ALL -P ALL
-I { keyword [,...] | ALL }
Report interrupts statistics.
Possible keywords are SUM, CPU and SCPU.
With the SUM keyword, the mpstat command reports the total
number of interrupts per processor. The following values are
displayed:
CPU
Processor number. The keyword all indicates that
statistics are calculated as averages among all
processors.
intr/s
Show the total number of interrupts received per second
by the CPU or CPUs.
With the CPU keyword, the number of each individual interrupt
received per second by the CPU or CPUs is displayed. Interrupts
are those listed in /proc/interrupts file.
With the SCPU keyword, the number of each individual software
interrupt received per second by the CPU or CPUs is displayed.
This option works only with kernels 2.6.31 and later. Software
interrupts are those listed in /proc/softirqs file.
The ALL keyword is equivalent to specifying all the keywords
above and therefore all the interrupts statistics are displayed.
-P { cpu [,...] | ON | ALL }
Indicate the processor number for which statistics are to be
reported. cpu is the processor number. Note that processor 0 is
the first processor. The ON keyword indicates that statistics
are to be reported for every online processor, whereas the ALL
keyword indicates that statistics are to be reported for all
processors.
-u Report CPU utilization. The following values are displayed:
CPU
Processor number. The keyword all indicates that
statistics are calculated as averages among all
processors.
%usr
Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred
while executing at the user level (application).
%nice
Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred
while executing at the user level with nice priority.
%sys
Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred
while executing at the system level (kernel). Note that
this does not include time spent servicing hardware and
software interrupts.
%iowait
Show the percentage of time that the CPU or CPUs were
idle during which the system had an outstanding disk I/O
request.
%irq
Show the percentage of time spent by the CPU or CPUs to
service hardware interrupts.
%soft
Show the percentage of time spent by the CPU or CPUs to
service software interrupts.
%steal
Show the percentage of time spent in involuntary wait by
the virtual CPU or CPUs while the hypervisor was
servicing another virtual processor.
%guest
Show the percentage of time spent by the CPU or CPUs to
run a virtual processor.
%gnice
Show the percentage of time spent by the CPU or CPUs to
run a niced guest.
%idle
Show the percentage of time that the CPU or CPUs were
idle and the system did not have an outstanding disk I/O
request.
Note: On SMP machines a processor that does not have any
activity at all is a disabled (offline) processor.
-V Print version number then exit.
ENVIRONMENT
The mpstat command takes into account the following environment
variable:
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=34;1:N=33;1:Z=33;22. Supported capabilities
are:
H= SGR (Select Graphic Rendition) substring for percentage
values greater than or equal to 75%.
I= SGR substring for CPU number.
M= SGR substring for percentage values in the range from 50%
to 75%.
N= SGR substring for non-zero statistics values.
Z= SGR substring for zero values.
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 mpstat command will use the ISO 8601 format
(YYYY-MM-DD) instead. The timestamp will also be compliant with
ISO 8601 format.
EXAMPLES
mpstat 2 5
Display five reports of global statistics among all processors
at two second intervals.
mpstat -P ALL 2 5
Display five reports of statistics for all processors at two
second intervals.
BUGS
/proc filesystem must be mounted for the mpstat command to work. Only a few activities are given by the Linux kernel for each processor.
FILES
/proc contains various files with system statistics.
AUTHOR
Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr)
SEE ALSO
sar(1), pidstat(1), iostat(1), vmstat(8) http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/
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