vmstat

[Steven M Cohn]

Regarding the two questions on vmstat(8) in v10n57, vmstat is somewhat
brain dead.  I was up in Milpitas at Sun's advanced System Administration
class, and our instructor told us that both fields 'avm' and 'at' were
meaningless.  On my system, they are always zero.  I usually get good data
for sr, however, the system must be pretty heavily loaded to get a value.
In general, you have to be paging fairly heavily to get this number above
zero for any length of time.

I have class notes available by fax for anyone really interested.

Steve Cohn
smc at desktalk.com