

The following vmstat report was made on a system running AIXwindows and several synthetic applications (some low-activity intervals have been removed): procs memory page faults cpu

Since no count was specified following the interval, reporting continues until the command is cancelled.

The command $ vmstat 5Ĭauses the vmstat command to begin writing a one-line summary report of system activity every 5 seconds. The vmstat command reports CPU and disk-I/O activity as well as memory utilization data. Perhaps the best tool for an overall look at resource utilization while running a multiuser workload is the vmstat command. Starting with an Overview of System Performance
