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+.\" $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 $
+.\"
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+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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+.\" 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.