This command is used to monitor the performance of processes/jobs on a system. Which provides real-time statistics on CPU, memory, and I/O usage and can be used to identify processes that are consuming excessive resources.
- About pidstat: To report statistics for Linux tasks
- Comes From: sysstat-X.X.X
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /usr/bin/pidstat
Examples:
1. To report statistics for Linux tasks
| # pidstat |
2. To display only tasks whose command name includes the string comm
| # pidstat -C comm |
3. To report I/O statistics
| # pidstat -d |
4. To display all activities horizontally on a single line
| # pidstat -h |
5. To display the process command name and all its arguments
| # pidstat -l |
6. To select tasks (processes) for which statistics are to be reported
| # pidstat -p 1234 |
7. To report page faults and memory usage
| # pidstat -r |
8. To display statistics for threads associated with selected tasks
| # pidstat -t |
9. To specifies what has to be monitored by the pidstat command
| # pidstat -T |
10. To report CPU usage
| # pidstat -u |
11. To print version info
| # pidstat -V |
12. To Report task switching activity
| # pidstat -w |
Related Commands: sar, top, ps, mpstat, iostat, vmstat
