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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting vmstat Post 302338535 by methyl on Tuesday 28th of July 2009 07:53:11 AM
Old 07-28-2009
Beware that the first line of statistics from vmstat are garbage.
Therefor anchal_khare post will not produce valid results.

Also beware that "vmstat 5" will not stop until it is interrupted or killed.
To get meaningful statistics from vmstat it must be run with at least two iterations:
Code:
vmstat 5 2

Then take the statistics from the last line output.
A 5-second snapshot of a unix system would be biased by vmstat itself.

In practice you get a more meaningful statistics from say:
Code:
vmstat 30 2

run every 20 mins.
 

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Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats(3pm)

NAME
Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats - Collect linux paging and swapping statistics. SYNOPSIS
use Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats; my $lxs = Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats->new; $lxs->init; sleep 1; my $stat = $lxs->get; Or my $lxs = Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats->new(initfile => $file); $lxs->init; my $stat = $lxs->get; DESCRIPTION
Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats gathers paging and swapping statistics from the virtual /proc filesystem (procfs). For more information read the documentation of the front-end module Sys::Statistics::Linux. PAGING AND SWAPPING STATISTICS
Generated by /proc/stat or /proc/vmstat. pgpgin - Number of pages the system has paged in from disk per second. pgpgout - Number of pages the system has paged out to disk per second. pswpin - Number of pages the system has swapped in from disk per second. pswpout - Number of pages the system has swapped out to disk per second. The following statistics are only available by kernels from 2.6. pgfault - Number of page faults the system has made per second (minor + major). pgmajfault - Number of major faults per second the system required loading a memory page from disk. METHODS
new() Call "new()" to create a new object. my $lxs = Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats->new; Maybe you want to store/load the initial statistics to/from a file: my $lxs = Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats->new(initfile => '/tmp/pgswstats.yml'); If you set "initfile" it's not necessary to call sleep before "get()". It's also possible to set the path to the proc filesystem. Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats->new( files => { # This is the default path => '/proc', stat => 'stat', vmstat => 'vmstat', } ); init() Call "init()" to initialize the statistics. $lxs->init; get() Call "get()" to get the statistics. "get()" returns the statistics as a hash reference. my $stat = $lxs->get; raw() Get raw values. EXPORTS
No exports. SEE ALSO
proc(5) REPORTING BUGS
Please report all bugs to <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>. AUTHOR
Jonny Schulz <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 by Jonny Schulz. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-09 Sys::Statistics::Linux::PgSwStats(3pm)
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