VMSTAT

[Rick Farris]

In article <162 at wcsn.csms.com> ken at wcsn.csms.com (Kenneth D. Fox WCSN Sr. Operations Engineer) writes:

> I would like to know (in plan english) what the output 
> of this command is telling me. 


>     procs  	       paging                              system        cpu
>  r  b  w  si  so  ch  cm ffr swr sww rec shf shc cpy  pf  in   sy  cs  us su id
>     
>  1 35  0 242 264 59101 20218 20218 3422 4092 11547 188289 25300 56957 2286554 3171315 3922640 350882   1  1 98

If you'd like the english version, try "vmstat -s" (I guess
the "s" stands for "strings").  It will print out a "plain
english" summary.

For even more valuable information, try "sar -A" -- you may
have to be root to access this command.

For info on what to do with the data once you have it, try:

	"System Performance Tuning" by Mike Loukides,
	published by O'Reilly and Associates.

For a graphical display of all of these parameters, try
"Monitor: A Performance Analyser for Unix Systems" from
Stallion Technologies (see the review in Unix World,
November 1990, pp121-124), or "Permon", from Shuss Systems
(908) 225-2424, which comes with the aforementioned book by
Loukides. 


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