System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

How to Display System Event Information (vmstat -s)

Run the vmstat -s command to show the total of various system events that 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
   392182 total address trans. faults taken
    20419 page ins
      923 page outs
    30072 pages paged in
     9194 pages paged out
    65167 total reclaims
    65157 reclaims from free list
        0 micro (hat) faults
   392182 minor (as) faults
    19383 major faults
    85775 copy-on-write faults
    66637 zero fill page faults
    46309 pages examined by the clock daemon
        6 revolutions of the clock hand
    15578 pages freed by the clock daemon
     4398 forks
      352 vforks
     4267 execs
 12926285 cpu context switches
109029866 device interrupts
   499296 traps
 22461261 system calls
   778068 total name lookups (cache hits 97%)
    18739 user   cpu
    34662 system cpu
 52051435 idle   cpu
    25252 wait   cpu