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



NAME
       mpstat - Report processors related statistics.

SYNOPSIS
       mpstat  [  -A  ]	 [  -I	{ SUM | CPU | SCPU | ALL } ] [ -u ] [ -P { cpu
       [,...] | ON | ALL } ] [ -V ] [ interval [ count ] ]

DESCRIPTION
       The mpstat command writes to standard output activities for each avail-
       able processor, processor 0 being the first one.	 Global average activ-
       ities 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 parame-
       ter, the mpstat command generates reports continuously.


OPTIONS
       -A     This option is equivalent to specifying -I ALL -u -P ALL

       -I { SUM | CPU | SCPU | ALL }
	      Report interrupts statistics.

	      With the SUM keyword, the mpstat command reports the total  num-
	      ber  of interrupts per processor.	 The following values are dis-
	      played:

	      CPU
		     Processor number. The keyword all indicates that  statis-
		     tics 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.

	      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.

	      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 statis-
		     tics 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  servic-
		     ing another virtual processor.

	      %guest
		     Show  the	percentage of time spent by the CPU or CPUs to
		     run a virtual processor.

	      %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	activ-
	      ity at all is a disabled (offline) processor.

       -V     Print version number then exit.


ENVIRONMENT
       The  mpstat  command takes into account the following environment vari-
       able:


       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.


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/



Linux				  AUGUST 2011			     MPSTAT(1)