The following example shows the vmstat display of statistics gathered at five-second intervals.
$ vmstat 5 procs memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr f0 s3 -- -- in sy cs us sy id 0 0 8 28312 668 0 9 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 61 82 1 2 97 0 0 3 31940 248 0 10 20 0 26 0 27 0 4 0 0 53 189 191 6 6 88 0 0 3 32080 288 3 19 49 6 26 0 15 0 9 0 0 75 415 277 6 15 79 0 0 3 32080 256 0 26 20 6 21 0 12 1 6 0 0 163 110 138 1 3 96 0 1 3 32060 256 3 45 52 28 61 0 27 5 12 0 0 195 191 223 7 11 82 0 0 3 32056 260 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 52 84 0 1 99 |