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     SYSMON(8)                                               SYSMON(8)

     NAME
          sysmon, stats - display graphs of system activity

     SYNOPSIS
          sysmon [ machine [ -option ] ]

          stats [ -option ]

     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.  Click-
          ing a mouse button anywhere in the window cycles through the
          list of parameters to monitor; an option letter sets the
          initial choice.  The option letters and parameters are:

          [m] mem      total pages of active memory.  The memory is
                       displayed as a fraction of the machine's total
                       memory.
          [e] ether    number of packets sent and received per second.
          [w] 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.
          [c] contxt   number of process context switches per second.
          [i] intr     number of interrupts per second.
          [f] fault    number of memory faults per second.
          [t] tlbmiss  number of translation look-aside buffer misses
                       per second.
          [p] tlbpurge number of translation lookaside buffer flushes
                       per second.
          [l] 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

     SOURCE
          /rc/bin/sysmon
          /sys/src/cmd/stats.c

     BUGS
          Some machines do not have TLB hardware.