pidstat(1)



PIDSTAT(1)                    Linux User's Manual                   PIDSTAT(1)

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  ] [ --dec={ 0 | 1 | 2 } ] [ --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 activ-
       ities  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 fol-
              lowing 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  moni-
                     tored.

              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 can-
                     celled by the task. This may occur when  the  task  trun-
                     cates  some  dirty pagecache. In this case, some IO which
                     another task has been accounted for will not  be  happen-
                     ing.

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

              Command
                     The command name of the task.

       --dec={ 0 | 1 | 2 }
              Specify the number of decimal places to use  (0  to  2,  default
              value is 2).

       -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 op-
              tion -t is used together with option -G then the threads belong-
              ing  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.  1.0k,  1.2M,  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  dis-
              played  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  re-
              ported.  pid is the process identification number. The SELF key-
              word indicates that statistics are to be reported for  the  pid-
              stat process itself, whereas the ALL keyword indicates that sta-
              tistics are to be reported for all the tasks managed by the sys-
              tem.

       -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 moni-
                     tored.

              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  moni-
                     tored.

              PID
                     The identification number of the task being monitored.

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

              majflt/s
                     Total  number  of major faults the task has made per sec-
                     ond, 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  chil-
              dren, 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 mon-
                     itored 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 to-
                     gether with its children.

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

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

              USER
                     The  name  of  the  real user owning the task being moni-
                     tored.

              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, refer-
                     enced 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 statis-
              tics 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  moni-
                     tored.

              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 chil-
              dren, 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 mon-
                     itored together with its children.

              usr-ms
                     Total  number  of  milliseconds spent by the task and all
                     its children while executing at the user level  (applica-
                     tion),  with or without nice priority, and collected dur-
                     ing 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  (ker-
                     nel), 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  pro-
                     cessor).

              Command
                     The command name of the task which is being monitored to-
                     gether 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  moni-
                     tored.

              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 moni-
                     tored.

              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  un-
                     available.

              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  vari-
       ables:

       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).

              Note:  On  Debian  sysstems  the colors are displayed by default
              when output is connected to the terminal, even if this  variable
              is  not set (i.e. unset variable is treated as if it were set to
              auto).

              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 statis-
              tics 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  num-
                     ber.

              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 in-
              tervals 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)

       https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat

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

Linux                              JULY 2018                        PIDSTAT(1)

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