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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man8/vmstat.8 b/static/openbsd/man8/vmstat.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a4a7d4e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man8/vmstat.8 @@ -0,0 +1,221 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: vmstat.8,v 1.40 2019/12/06 19:15:16 jmc Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: vmstat.8,v 1.12 1996/05/10 23:19:30 thorpej Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)vmstat.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 6 2019 $ +.Dt VMSTAT 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vmstat +.Nd report statistics about kernel activities +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm vmstat +.Op Fl fimstvz +.Nm vmstat +.Op Fl c Ar count +.Op Fl M Ar core +.Op Fl N Ar system +.Op Fl w Ar wait +.Op Ar disk ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +reports certain kernel statistics kept about process, virtual memory, +disk, trap, and CPU activity. +The default behavior is to print a one-line summary of these statistics. +The +.Fl c +and +.Fl w +flags may be used to continually report summaries. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl c Ar count +Repeat the display +.Ar count +times. +The first display is for the time since a reboot and each subsequent report +is for the time period since the last display. +If no +.Ar wait +interval is specified, the default is 1 second. +.It Fl f +Report on the number of +.Xr fork 2 , +.Xr __tfork 3 , +and +.Xr vfork 2 +system calls as well as kernel thread creations since system startup, +and the number of pages of virtual memory involved in each. +.It Fl i +Report on the number of interrupts taken by each device since system +startup. +.It Fl M Ar core +Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core +instead of the running kernel. +.It Fl m +Report on the usage of kernel dynamic memory listed first by size of +allocation and then by type of usage. +.It Fl N Ar system +Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the running kernel. +.It Fl s +Display the contents of the +.Va uvmexp +structure (see +.Xr uvm_init 9 ) , +giving the total number of several kinds of paging related +events which have occurred since system startup. +.It Fl t +Report on the number of page in and page reclaims since system startup, +and the amount of time required by each. +.It Fl v +Print more verbose information. +.It Fl w Ar wait +Pause +.Ar wait +seconds between each display. +If no repeat +.Ar count +is specified, the default is infinity. +.It Fl z +When used with +.Fl i , +also list devices which have not yet generated an interrupt. +.El +.Pp +By default, +.Nm +displays the following information just once: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Li procs +Information about the numbers of processes in various states. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact +.It Li r +in run queue +.It Li s +sleeping +.El +.It Li memory +Information about the usage of virtual and real memory. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact +.It Li avm +active virtual pages +.It Li fre +size of the free list +.El +.It Li page +Information about page faults and paging activity. +These are averaged each five seconds, and given in units per second. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact +.It Li flt +page faults +.It Li re +page reclaims (simulating reference bits) +.It Li pi +pages paged in +.It Li po +pages paged out +.It Li fr +pages freed +.It Li sr +pages scanned by clock algorithm +.El +.It Li disks +Disk transfers per second. +Typically paging will be split across the available drives. +The header of the field is the first character of the disk name and +the unit number. +If more than two disk drives are configured in the system, +.Nm +displays only the first two drives. +To force +.Nm +to display specific drives, their names may be supplied on the command line. +.It Li traps +Trap/interrupt rate averages per second over last 5 seconds. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact +.It Li int +device interrupts per interval (including clock interrupts) +.It Li sys +system calls per interval +.It Li cs +CPU context switch rate (switches/interval) +.El +.It Li cpu +Breakdown of percentage usage of CPU time. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact +.It Li us +user time for normal and low priority processes +.It Li sy +system time +.It Li id +CPU idle +.El +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact +.It Pa /bsd +default kernel image +.It Pa /dev/kmem +default memory file +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The command +.Ic vmstat -w 5 +will print what the system is doing every five +seconds; this is a good choice of printing interval since this is how often +some of the statistics are sampled in the system. +Others vary every second and running the output for a while will make it +apparent which are recomputed every second. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr fstat 1 , +.Xr netstat 1 , +.Xr nfsstat 1 , +.Xr procmap 1 , +.Xr ps 1 , +.Xr systat 1 , +.Xr top 1 , +.Xr iostat 8 , +.Xr pstat 8 , +.Xr uvm_init 9 +.Sh BUGS +The +.Fl c +and +.Fl w +options are only available with the default output. +.Pp +This manual page lacks an incredible amount of detail. |
