System Administration Guide

How to Display Cache Flushing Statistics

Run vmstat -c to show cache flushing statistics for a virtual cache.


$ vmstat -c
flush statistics: (totals)
    usr      ctx     rgn    seg     pag     par
  14512    20201       0   1811 1857286  815505

It shows the total number of cache flushes since the last boot. The cache types are described in Table 64-3.

Table 64-3 Output From the vmstat -c Command

Cache Name 

Cache Type 

usr

User 

ctx

Context 

rgn

Region 

seg

Segment 

pag

Page 

par

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