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     SYSMON(8)                                               SYSMON(8)

     NAME
          sysmon, stats - display graphs of system activity

     SYNOPSIS
          sysmon [ machine ]

          stats

     DESCRIPTION
          Sysmon displays a rolling graph of various statistics col-
          lected by the operating system.  The statistics may be from
          a remote machine.  A sample value is taken once per second.
          The number in the top left corner of the graph gives the
          peak value for the duration of the graph.
           Lines across the graph represent 75%, 50% and 25% of the
          peak value.  Clicking the mouse buttons anywhere in the win-
          dow selects a new parameter to monitor.  The parameters are:

          mem       total pages of active memory.  The memory is dis-
                    played as a fraction of the machine's total mem-
                    ory.
          ether     number of packets sent and received per second.
          swap      number of valid pages on the swap device.  The
                    swap is displayed as a fraction of the number of
                    swap pages configured by the machine.
          contxt    number of process context switches per second.
          intr      number of interrupts per second.
          fault     number of memory faults per second.
          tlbmiss   number translation lookaside buffer misses per
                    second.
          tlbpurge  number translation lookaside buffer flushes per
                    second.
          load      system load average.  The load is computed as a
                    running average of the number of processes ready
                    to run multiplied by 1000 to give some precision.
          The stats program is invoked by sysmon to display the graph.

     FILES
          /net/*/[0-n]/stats
          #c/sysstat

     BUGS
          Some machines do not have TLB hardware.