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@(#)vmstat.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.Dd May 6, 2003 .Dt VMSTAT 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm vmstat .Nd report virtual memory statistics .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl efHilLmsUv k -words .Op Fl M Ar core .Ek k -words .Op Fl N Ar system .Ek k -words .Op Fl c Ar count .Ek k -words .Op Fl h Ar hashname .Ek k -words .Op Fl u Ar histname .Ek k -words .Op Fl w Ar wait .Ek .Op Ar disks .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm reports certain kernel statistics kept about process, virtual memory, disk, trap and cpu activity.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width xxxhistname t Fl M Ar core Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default
a /dev/mem . t Fl N Ar system Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
a /netbsd . t Fl c Ar count Repeat the display .Ar count times. The first display is for the time since a reboot and each subsequent report is for the time period since the last display. If no .Ar wait interval is specified, the default is 1 second. t Fl e Report the values of system event counters. t Fl f Report fork statistics. t Fl h Ar hashname Report hash table statistics for .Ar hashname . t Fl H Report all hash table statistics. t Fl i Report the values of system interrupt counters. t Fl l List the UVM histories being maintained by the kernel. t Fl L List all the hashes supported for .Fl h and .Fl H . t Fl m Report on the usage of kernel dynamic memory listed first by size of allocation and then by type of usage. Followed by a list of the kernel memory pools and their usage. t Fl s Display the contents of the .Dv uvmexp structure. This contains various paging event and memory status counters. t Fl u Ar histname Dump the specified UVM history. t Fl U Dump all UVM histories. t Fl v Print more verbose information. When used with the .Fl i , .Fl e or .Fl m options prints out all counters, not just those with non-zero values. t Fl w Ar wait Pause .Ar wait seconds between each display. If no repeat .Ar count is specified, the default is infinity. .El
p By default, .Nm displays the following information:
p l -tag -width memory t procs Information about the numbers of processes in various states.
p l -tag -width abcd -compact t r in run queue t b blocked for resources (i/o, paging, etc.) t w runnable or short sleeper (\*[Lt] 20 secs) but swapped .El t memory Information about the usage of virtual and real memory. Virtual pages (reported in units of 1024 bytes) are considered active if they belong to processes which are running or have run in the last 20 seconds.
p l -tag -width abcd -compact t avm active virtual pages t fre size of the free list .El t page Information about page faults and paging activity. These are averaged every five seconds, and given in units per second.
p l -tag -width abcd -compact t flt total page faults t re page reclaims (simulating reference bits) t pi pages paged in t po pages paged out t fr pages freed per second t sr pages scanned by clock algorithm, per-second .El t disks Disk transfers per second. Typically paging will be split across the available drives. The header of the field is the first character of the disk name and the unit number. If more than four disk drives are configured in the system, .Nm displays only the first four drives. To force .Nm to display specific drives, their names may be supplied on the command line. t faults Trap/interrupt rate averages per second over last 5 seconds.
p l -tag -width abcd -compact t in device interrupts per interval (including clock interrupts) t sy system calls per interval t cs cpu context switch rate (switches/interval) .El t cpu Breakdown of percentage usage of CPU time.
p l -tag -width abcd -compact t us user time for normal and low priority processes t sy system time t id cpu idle .El .El .Sh FILES l -tag -width eeenymeeny -compact t Pa /netbsd default kernel namelist t Pa /dev/mem default memory file .El .Sh EXAMPLES The command .Dq Li vmstat -w 5 will print what the system is doing every five seconds; this is a good choice of printing interval since this is how often some of the statistics are sampled in the system. Others vary every second and running the output for a while will make it apparent which are recomputed every second. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr fstat 1 , .Xr netstat 1 , .Xr nfsstat 1 , .Xr ps 1 , .Xr systat 1 , .Xr iostat 8 , .Xr pstat 8
p The sections starting with .Dq Interpreting system activity in .%T Installing and Operating 4.3BSD . .Sh BUGS The .Fl c and .Fl w options are only available with the default output.
p The .Fl l , .Fl u , and .Fl U options are useful only if the system was compiled with support for UVM history.