{"id":465,"date":"2022-10-12T06:59:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/2015\/12\/12\/20-mpstat-command-examples-in-linux-unix\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T05:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T05:45:51","slug":"20-mpstat-command-examples-in-linux-unix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/20-mpstat-command-examples-in-linux-unix\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Tutorials: mpstat commands examples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
 mpstat - Report processors related statistics.\n\nThe mpstat command writes to standard output activities for each available processor, processor 0 being the first one.  Global average activities among all processors are also reported. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
How to install mpstat?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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$ sudo apt install sysstat         [On Debian, Ubuntu and Mint]\r\n$ sudo yum install sysstat         [On RHEL\/CentOS\/Fedora and Rocky Linux\/AlmaLinux]\r\n$ sudo emerge -a app-admin\/sysstat [On Gentoo Linux]\r\n$ sudo pacman -S sysstat           [On Arch Linux]\r\n$ sudo zypper install sysstat      [On OpenSUSE] <\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n
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mpstat command output<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Understanding mpstat output<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • CPU<\/strong> : Processor number. The keyword all statistics are calculated as averages among all processors.<\/li>
  • % usr<\/strong> : Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred while executing at the user level (application).<\/li>
  • % nice<\/strong> : Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred while executing at the user level with nice priority.<\/li>
  • % sys<\/strong> : Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred while executing at the system level (kernel). Note that this does not include time-consuming servicing hardware and software interrupts.<\/li>
  • % iowait<\/strong> : The CPU or CPUs were idle during which the system had an outstanding disk I \/ O request.<\/li>
  • % irq<\/strong> : Show the percentage of time spent by the CPU or CPUs to service hardware interrupts.<\/li>
  • % soft<\/strong> : Show the percentage of time spent by the CPU or CPUs to service software interrupts.<\/li>
  • % steal<\/strong> : Show the percentage of time spent waiting for the CPU or CPUs while the hypervisor is servicing another virtual processor.<\/li>
  • % guest<\/strong> : Show the percentage of time used by the CPU or CPUs to run a virtual processor.<\/li>
  • % idle<\/strong> : The CPU or CPUs were idle and the system did not have an outstanding disk I \/ O request.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    mstat commands example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    1. To report the processor stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    # mpstat 2 10 <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    2. To report all processor stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    # mpstat -A 2 10 <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    3. To get the processor number for which the stats are displaying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    # mpstat -P 2 10 <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    4. To report the CPU utilization stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    # mpstat -u 2 10 <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    5. To get the version info:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    # mpstat -V \n\nTo see the default set of utilization metrics, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat 1 1\r\n\r\nTo see the default set of utilization metrics in wide display mode, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat \u2013w 1 1\r\n\r\nTo see the detailed dispatch & affinity metrics, enter the following command:\r\n mpstat \u2013d 1 1\r\n\r\nTo see the detailed interrupts report, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat \u2013i 1 1\r\n\r\nTo see all the statistics, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat \u2013a 1 1\r\n\r\nTo see simultaneous multithreading utilization, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat \u2013s 1 1\r\n\r\nTo see all the processor metrics of a WPAR, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat -@ wparname\r\n\r\nNote: To see all the processor metrics of a WPAR inside the WPAR, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat -@\r\n\r\nTo see the sorted output for the column cs, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat -d -O sortcolumn=cs\r\n\r\nTo see the list of the top 10 CPUs, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat -a -O sortcolumn=min,sortorder=desc,topcount=10\r\n\r\nTo see metrics based on the virtual processor, enter the following command:\r\nmpstat \u2013v\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    Context<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    mpstat – Report processors related statistics. The mpstat command writes to standard output activities for each available processor, processor 0 being the first one. Global average activities among all processors are also reported. How to install mpstat? mpstat command output Understanding mpstat output CPU : Processor number. The keyword all statistics are calculated as averages among all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4957],"tags":[378,632,460,1292,1289,1290,1291,1294,1293,169],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-commands","tag-examples","tag-linux","tag-linux-mpstat-command","tag-mpstat","tag-mpstat-command","tag-mpstat-command-examples","tag-mpstat-command-line","tag-mpstat-commands-tutorials","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31553,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/31553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}