System Administration Guide

How to Display System Event Information

Run vmstat -s to show the total of various system events that have taken place since the system was last booted.


$ vmstat -s
      0 swap ins
       0 swap outs
       0 pages swapped in
       0 pages swapped out 
 1329913 total address trans. faults taken
   25270 page ins
    3787 page outs
   38082 pages paged in
   13417 pages paged out
    3034 total reclaims
    3033 reclaims from free list
  335879 micro (hat) faults
  994034 minor (as) faults
   24210 major faults
  300634 copy-on-write faults
  141744 zero fill page faults
   34341 pages examined by the clock daemon
       5 revolutions of the clock hand
   28134 pages freed by the clock daemon
   11174 forks
    1259 vforks
    9086 execs 
11479519 cpu context switches 
95234544 device interrupts 
 1426943 traps 
 9100502 system calls
 1939346 total name lookups (cache hits 88%)
     496 toolong
  185566 user cpu
  977189 system cpu
92045953 idle cpu 
  130914 wait cpu