STATS(7)

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version 15.1 · 3 versions
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✨ STATS(7) ✨

okay so bestie, this is stats from the Miscellaneous Information Manual — it's like the group chat directory for every statistics utility in the FreeBSD userland, and honestly? iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

stats — everything you ever wanted to know about the whole squad of statistics utilities 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the FreeBSD userland lowkey contains a whole series of utilities, right? and these little icons can be used to ascertain system state at runtime, and optionally from core files. that's it. that's the vibe. they just tell you what's going on inside your box 🫶

🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

the following commands (sorted alphabetically, no cap — we do not do chaos here) are currently included in the base system, with more appearing periodically. so the lineup keeps growing, periodt 💖

  • btsockstat — show Bluetooth socket information 📶
  • ctlstat — the CAM Target Layer statistics utility
  • dwatch — watch processes as they trigger a particular DTrace probe 👀
  • fstat — identify active files
  • gstat — print statistics about GEOM disks 💽
  • ibstat — display information from the InfiniBand driver
  • ifmcstat — dump multicast group management statistics per interface
  • iostat — report kernel subsystem I/O statistics
  • ipfstat — display IPF packet filter statistics and filter list
  • kldstat — display status of dynamic kernel linker
  • lockstat — report kernel lock and profiling statistics 🔒
  • mailstats — display mail statistics 📧
  • netstat — show network status and statistics 🌐
  • nfsstat — display NFS statistics
  • plockstat — trace pthread lock statistics using DTrace
  • pmcstat — performance measurement with performance monitoring hardware 🔥
  • procstat — get detailed process information
  • pstat — display system data structures
  • sockstat — list open sockets
  • stat — display file status
  • systat — display system statistics
  • vmstat — report virtual memory statistics 🧠
  • zpool iostat — report ZFS I/O statistics

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole fam, all linked up — go read these next, iykyk:

btsockstat(1), dwatch(1), fstat(1), intro(1), lockstat(1), netstat(1), plockstat(1), procstat(1), sockstat(1), stat(1), systat(1), intro(7), tuning(7), ctlstat(8), gstat(8), ibstat(8), ifmcstat(8), intro(8), iostat(8), ipfstat(8), kldstat(8), mailstats(8), pmcstat(8), pstat(8), vmstat(8), zpool(8)

💜 HISTORY 💜

the stats manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 13.0. a little baby legend 🍓

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@FreeBSD.org> — thank you for your service, king 🫡

ok that's the whole page, you're officially a statistics-utility scholar now. slay 💅✨

and that's a wrap bestie!! this edition came from Debian, dated October 28, 2025 — mwah, catch you in the next manpage 🎀💖

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