Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

kstat — Display Kernel Statistics

Synopsis

/bin/kstat [-lpq][-T u | d][-c class][-m module][-i instance]
  [-n name][-s statistic][interval [count]]
/bin/kstat [-lpq][-T u | d][-c class][module:instance:name:statistic
  ...][interval [count]]

Description

Use the kstat command to examine the available kernel statistics—kstats—on the system and to get a report on those statistics that match the criteria specified on the command line. Each matching statistic is printed with its module, instance, and name fields, as well as its actual value.

Various subsystems such as drivers or loadable modules can publish kernel statistics. Each kstat has a module field that denotes its publisher. Because each module can have countable entities (such as multiple ...