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XCPUSTATE(1)		    General Commands Manual		  XCPUSTATE(1)

NAME
       xcpustate - display CPU states (idle, nice, system, kernel) statistics

SYNTAX
       xcpustate  [  -toolkitoption ...] [ -count iterations] [	-interval sec-
       onds] [ -shorten	components] [ -cpu] [ -nocpu] [	-disk]	[  -nodisk]  [
       -omni]	 [    -noomni]	  [    -wait]	 [    -nowait]	 [   -filltype
       auto|grayscale|color|tile|stipple] [  -host  hostname]  [  -version]  [
       -colors colorname[,colorname[,...]]]  [ -avg iterations][ -kernel path-
       name] [ -mmap] [	-nommap]

DESCRIPTION
       Xcpustate  displays  bars showing the percentage	of time	the CPU	spends
       in different states. On some  systems,  it  optionally  indicates  disk
       states  in the same manner. It can also query remote systems that offer
       RSTAT RPC services.

       When using the RSTAT protocol, or when running locally on machines run-
       ning  Cygwin,  or  Berkeley  Unix  or  a	 derivative  (eg.  suns	  with
       SunOS<=4.1.1,  microVaxen  with	Ultrix), the bar indicates the propor-
       tions of	idle, user, nice, and system time with	increasing  levels  of
       grayscale  or color (from left to right).  When running locally on sup-
       ported multiprocessors (Solbourne OS/MP	systems,  Ultrix  multiproces-
       sors,  Linux/SMP,  and  the  Gould NP1),	there will be one bar for each
       CPU.

       On Linux	systems, each CPU bar indicates	the proportions	of idle, user,
       nice, and system	time, respectively, from  left	to  right.  Each  disk
       drive  bar  indicates the proportions of	idle, read I/O operations, and
       write I/O operations, from left to right. For disk drive	bars, the  I/O
       operations are displayed	on a sliding scale, the	entire bar correspond-
       ing  to the maximum total (read and write) number of I/O	operations per
       interval	since xcpustate	was started,  and  read/write  I/O  operations
       shown  as  fractions of the current maximum. For	disk drive bar display
       under Linux, xcpustate relies on	the "disk_io" statistics in /proc/stat
       (2.4 kernels) or	the information	in /proc/diskstats (2.6	or later  ker-
       nels).

       On  systems  running  OpenBSD  3.0 or later, each CPU bar indicates the
       proportions of idle, user, nice,	interrupt, and	system	time,  respec-
       tively, from left to right.

       On  an SGI system running IRIX, there will be one bar for each CPU, in-
       dicating	the proportions	of idle	+ wait,	user, kernel, sxbrk and	inter-
       rupt time for that CPU. If the ``wait'' option is set, the  bars	 indi-
       cate  idle, wait, user, kernel, sxbrk, and interrupt time, from left to
       right.

       On a Sun	multiprocessor under SunOS 4.1.2 or 4.1.3, bars	 indicate  the
       proportions  of	idle  +	 diskwait,  user,  nice, system, spinlock, and
       crosscall service time for each CPU.

       On a Sun	or other system	(eg. Solbourne,	Cray Superserver-6400) running
       Solaris 2.x or later, and on an IBM system running AIX,	bars  indicate
       the proportions of idle + wait, user, and kernel	time for each CPU.  If
       the  ``wait''  option  is  set, the bars	indicate idle, wait, user, and
       system/kernel time, from	left to	right.

       On a Cray X/MP or Y/MP running Unicos 5.1 or greater, bars indicate the
       proportions of idle + wait, user	and system/kernel time for each	CPU.

       On systems running the Mach operating system, bars indicates  the  pro-
       portions	of user, system, and idle time for each	CPU.

       On  supported  SVR4  systems (e.g. Dell Unix 2.2), a single bar is dis-
       played showing idle, user, system and wait times.

       On NCR SVR4 MP/RAS systems, one bar for each CPU	 (or  disk  drive)  is
       displayed.   Each bar indicates the relative proportions	of idle, user,
       system and wait times for that CPU.  Disk drive times show device  idle
       and busy.

OPTIONS
       Xcpustate  accepts  all of the standard X Toolkit command line options,
       plus:

       -count iterations
	       The number of times it should update the	 display.  Default  is
	       forever.

       -avg iterations
	       The  number  of	iterations  the	 bar values should be averaged
	       over. Default is	one.

       -interval seconds
	       the interval in seconds (fractions permitted) between  updates.
	       Default is 1 second.

       -shorten	components
	       On some systems,	xcpustate will display the hostname in the bar
	       labels.	 Since	some  fully qualified domain names can be very
	       long, this option allows	them to	be  shortened  to  a  specific
	       number  of  components.	 eg.   if  your	 hostname is foo.wher-
	       ever.edu, you can shorten it to foo by specifying -shorten 1 or
	       to foo.wherever by specifying -shorten 2	.  Specifying -shorten
	       0 will omit the hostname	completely;  a	negative  number  will
	       cause  xcpustate	 to draw unlabeled bars.  Some systems may not
	       support this option.

       -cpu    Display CPU statistics (default).

       -nocpu  Do not display CPU statistics.

       -disk   Display Disk statistics.	This is	supported only on Suns running
	       SunOS 4.x or 5.x, on Linux systems, or when  using  RSTAT.  One
	       bar  is displayed for each disk.	Disk bars appear below the CPU
	       bars, if	any. When using	RSTAT, exactly four  bars  appear  re-
	       gardless	 of  the number	of disks on the	remote host (this is a
	       limitation of the current version of the	RSTAT  protocol).  For
	       Suns  running SunOS 4.x,	the bars report	idle, seek, and	trans-
	       fer time. For Suns running SunOS	5.x,  the  bars	 report	 idle,
	       wait,  and  run	time. For Linux	systems, the bars report idle,
	       read I/O	operations and write I/O operations.   When  RSTAT  is
	       being used, the bars report idle	and transfer time.

       -nodisk Do not display disk statistics (default).

       -omni   Display	Omni Network Coprocessor Statistics. This is supported
	       only on Suns running SunOS 4.x. One bar is displayed  for  each
	       Network	Coprocessor, and placed	immediately below the bars for
	       the regular CPU(s). Each	bar indicates idle and system time.

       -noomni Do not display omni statistics (default).

       -wait   Display CPU disk/system wait time as a  separate	 statistic  on
	       applicable systems (Eg. SunOS 5.x, SGI IRIX, IBM	AIX).

       -nowait Include CPU disk/system wait time as part of idle (default).

       -version
	       Print out version information and exit.

       -filltype
	       Specify	the  method  xcpustate	should	use  to	fill the bars.
	       Available options include grayscale, color, tile,  stipple,  or
	       auto. Auto automatically	chooses	between	tiling,	grayscale, and
	       colour, depending on your display type. Auto is the default.

       -colors Specify	the colors used	to draw	the bars. Colors are specified
	       in left-to-right	order, separated by commas. A single  dot  can
	       be  used	 to  specify the default color at that position. Up to
	       ten colors may be specified.  Defaults are used for  the	 left-
	       most colors if less than	ten are	specified.

       -kernel pathname
	       Specify	the path that xcpustate	will use to find kernel	symbol
	       file information	on some	systems. This  option  is  ignored  on
	       IRIX, Mach, and SunOS 5.x.

       -mmap   Request	that  xcpustate	use mmap to directly map kernel	memory
	       into the	current	process	address	space on  some	systems	 (SVR4
	       and NCR). This is the default.

       -nommap Inverse of mmap option.

X DEFAULTS
       For xcpustate the available class identifiers are:

       CPUStateMonitor - the application
       Form - enclosing	the entire application,	and sub-Forms enclosing
       Label/Bar pairs.

       For xcpustate, the available name identifiers are:

       xcpustate - application name
       The outer Form is "form".
       The Forms enclosing the Label/Bar pairs are "formN", where N is the
       index number, starting with the top pair	as zero.
       Each Label name is the same as the label	string.
       Each Bar	name is	"barN".

       For xcpustate, the available resources are:

       name interval, class Interval
	      corresponds to the -interval option. Takes a float value.

       name count, class Count
	      corresponds to the -count	argument. Takes	an integer value.

       name avg, class Avg
	      corresponds to the -avg argument.	Takes an integer value.

       name shorten, class Shorten
	      corresponds to the -shorten argument. Takes an integer value.

       name cpu, class Cpu
	      corresponds  to  the  -cpu and -nocpu arguments. Takes a boolean
	      value.

       name disk, class	Disk
	      corresponds to the -disk and -nodisk arguments. Takes a  boolean
	      value.

       name omni, class	Omni
	      corresponds  to the -omni	and -noomni arguments. Takes a boolean
	      value.  Not available on systems other than Suns	running	 SunOS
	      4.x.

       name wait, class	Wait
	      corresponds  to the -wait	and -nowait arguments. Takes a boolean
	      value.

       name filltype, class Filltype
	      corresponds to the -filltype argument. Takes a string.

       name host, class	Host
	      corresponds to the -host argument. Takes a hostname.

       name colors, class Colors
	      corresponds to the -colors  argument.  Takes  a  comma-separated
	      list of color names.

       name mmap, class	Mmap
	      corresponds  to  the -mmap and -nommap argument. Takes a boolean
	      value.

       name kernel, class Kernel
	      corresponds to the -kernel argument. Takes a pathname.

NOTES
       Xcpustate is meant to be	easy to	port, and extend to monitor a wide va-
       riety of	statistics.

SEE ALSO
       xperfmon, xload,	xmeter

AUTHORS
       Mark Moraes at D. E. Shaw wrote the original X code and	the  SGI  IRIX
       code.  He  also	enhanced the code for the Bar widget to	support	color.
       John DiMarco at the University of Toronto is the	current	maintainer. He
       contributed to the color	support, fixed some minor problems, added sup-
       port for	SunOS 4.x multiprocessors, SunOS 5.x, disks, Omni network  co-
       processors,  AIX	(SMP on	AIX 4.x) and RSTAT. Thanks to David O'Brien of
       the University of California, Davis for the 4.4BSD code,	Chris  Sieben-
       mann of the University of Toronto for the code for 4.3BSD systems; Wal-
       ter  D. Poxon from Cray Research	for the	code for Cray machines running
       Unicos; Melinda Shore at	mt Xinu	for the	code for  Mach	systems;  Bill
       Kucharski  at  Solbourne	 for  the code for Solbourne systems; Salvador
       Pinto Abreu at Universidade Nova	de Lisboa, Portugal, for the code  for
       Ultrix  multiprocessors;	 Hugues	Leroy at Irisa,	Rennes,	France for the
       code for	Gould NP1 bi-processors, Bruce Frost at	NCR for	the  code  for
       (Dell)  SVR4  and NCR systems, and Kumsup Lee at	the University of Min-
       nesota and Greg Nakhimovsky at Sun Microsystems	for  the  Linux	 code.
       Thanks  also  to	 Robert	 Montjoy from the University of	Cincinatti for
       contributing and	testing	some of	the SunOS 5.x code, to Dave  Cahlander
       from  Cray for cleaning up the X	resource code, and to Ron Wigmore from
       Ryerson Polytechnic University for his assistance with the AIX port.

BUGS
       The RSTAT RPC protocol supports only one	processor and  four  disks  on
       the  remote system. On a	multiprocessor,	the CPU	data reported by RSTAT
       will be an average of all the active CPUs on the	machine.

       For some	operating systems, there may be	internal  compile-time	limits
       on  the	number	of CPUs	or disks supported.  If	there are compile-time
       limits, they are	reported by the	output of the -version flag.

       Xcpustate may initially display nonsensical data, before	being  updated
       the first time.

       The  use	 of  very small	(significantly less than one second) intervals
       may result in xcpustate using significant resources, particularly  when
       running	over  the  network.   A	minimum	interval may be	specified as a
       compile-time option, and	intervals less than this will not  be  permit-
       ted.

				 Mar 29, 1996			  XCPUSTATE(1)

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