Displaying System Event Information (vmstat –s)

Run the vmstat -s command to show how many system events have taken place since the last time the system was booted.

$ vmstat -s
        0 swap ins
        0 swap outs
        0 pages swapped in
        0 pages swapped out
   522586 total address trans. faults taken
    17006 page ins
       25 page outs
    23361 pages paged in
       28 pages paged out
    45594 total reclaims
    45592 reclaims from free list
        0 micro (hat) faults
   522586 minor (as) faults
    16189 major faults
    98241 copy-on-write faults
   137280 zero fill page faults
    45052 pages examined by the clock daemon
        0 revolutions of the clock hand
       26 pages freed by the clock daemon
     2857 forks
       78 vforks
     1647 execs
 34673885 cpu context switches
 65943468 device interrupts
   711250 traps
 63957605 system calls
  3523925 total name lookups (cache hits 99%)
    92590 user   cpu
    65952 system cpu
 16085832 idle   cpu
     7450 wait   cpu