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Old 07-26-2011
Simple question about vmstat
Hi friends,

I have confusion about VMSTAT command.

1. When I execute "vmstat" command without any interval then I got something like following output.

Code:
vmstat
 procs     memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m1 m1 m1 m3   in   sy   cs us sy id
 2 573 0 5494680 6128480 2534 2256 18013 5 4 0 0 1 0 4 1 595 3713 1125 55 12 33

It indicates around 6GB free memory.

2. When I execute "vmstat 5 10" command (with intervals) then I am getting following

Code:
procs     memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m1 m1 m1 m3   in   sy   cs us sy id
 1 539 0 5355432 5939368 2503 2212 17903 5 4 0 0 1 0 5 1 632 1089 668 54 12 34
 0 858993236 0 1420912 1440816 157 6020 268 26 26 0 0 0 0 3 0 872 23166 5697 39 11 51

It indicates around 1.2 GB free memory.

Why this is happening. What is the different between those 2 commands. What is actual free memory?

Thanks and regards,
Rahul
Last edited by pludi; 07-26-2011 at 11:01 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-26-2011
the first line is always the average value for the whole uptime of the machine. so all other lines are the current values...
# 3  
Old 07-26-2011
Code:
procs     memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m1 m1 m1 m3   in   sy   cs us sy id
 1 539 0 5355432 5939368 2503 2212 17903 5 4 0 0 1 0 5 1 632 1089 668 54 12 34
 0 858993236 0 1420912 1440816 157 6020 268 26 26 0 0 0 0 3 0 872 23166 5697 39 11 51

858 millions threads hanging in the blocked queue is quite impressive ...
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# 4  
Old 07-26-2011
wow... didn't even take a look at the output... that's realy impressive! maybe a fork bomb Smilie
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# 5  
Old 07-27-2011
858 millions threads hanging in the blocked queue is quite impressive ...
didn't even take a look at the output... that's realy impressive! maybe a fork bomb

What you mean? Kindly explain me to understand. Does it something wrong? Please advice.
# 6  
Old 07-27-2011
Well, my first guess is that value is bogus.

What says
Code:
prstat -a 1 1 | tail -1

?
Last edited by jlliagre; 07-27-2011 at 12:54 PM.. Reason: Bogus command
# 7  
Old 07-27-2011
and a longer vmstat output (more lines) might also be usefull...
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