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- | ====== vmstat ====== | ||
- | This is just the man page snapshot for field description | ||
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- | <code text> | ||
- | FIELD DESCRIPTION FOR VM MODE | ||
- | Procs | ||
- | r: The number of processes waiting for run time. | ||
- | b: The number of processes in uninterruptible sleep. | ||
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- | Memory | ||
- | swpd: the amount of virtual memory used. | ||
- | free: the amount of idle memory. | ||
- | buff: the amount of memory used as buffers. | ||
- | cache: the amount of memory used as cache. | ||
- | inact: the amount of inactive memory. (-a option) | ||
- | active: the amount of active memory. (-a option) | ||
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- | Swap | ||
- | si: Amount of memory swapped in from disk (/s). | ||
- | so: Amount of memory swapped to disk (/s). | ||
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- | IO | ||
- | bi: Blocks received from a block device (blocks/s). | ||
- | bo: Blocks sent to a block device (blocks/s). | ||
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- | System | ||
- | in: The number of interrupts per second, including the clock. | ||
- | cs: The number of context switches per second. | ||
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- | CPU | ||
- | These are percentages of total CPU time. | ||
- | us: Time spent running non-kernel code. (user time, including nice time) | ||
- | sy: Time spent running kernel code. (system time) | ||
- | id: Time spent idle. Prior to Linux 2.5.41, this includes IO-wait time. | ||
- | wa: Time spent waiting for IO. Prior to Linux 2.5.41, included in idle. | ||
- | st: Time stolen from a virtual machine. Prior to Linux 2.6.11, unknown. | ||
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- | FIELD DESCRIPTION FOR DISK MODE | ||
- | Reads | ||
- | total: Total reads completed successfully | ||
- | merged: grouped reads (resulting in one I/O) | ||
- | sectors: Sectors read successfully | ||
- | ms: milliseconds spent reading | ||
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- | Writes | ||
- | total: Total writes completed successfully | ||
- | merged: grouped writes (resulting in one I/O) | ||
- | sectors: Sectors written successfully | ||
- | ms: milliseconds spent writing | ||
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- | IO | ||
- | cur: I/O in progress | ||
- | s: seconds spent for I/O | ||
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- | FIELD DESCRIPTION FOR DISK PARTITION MODE | ||
- | reads: Total number of reads issued to this partition | ||
- | read sectors: Total read sectors for partition | ||
- | writes : Total number of writes issued to this partition | ||
- | requested writes: Total number of write requests made for partition | ||
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- | FIELD DESCRIPTION FOR SLAB MODE | ||
- | cache: Cache name | ||
- | num: Number of currently active objects | ||
- | total: Total number of available objects | ||
- | size: Size of each object | ||
- | pages: Number of pages with at least one active object | ||
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- | </code> |