iowrites ,pgwrites


 
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Old 09-14-2006
iowrites ,pgwrites

what kind of information does
iowrites and pgwrites of "vmstat -p" provide?
what is the unit for these values?
(number of blocks? or bytes? or ...?)
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Old 09-14-2006
What version of it are you using under what OS? The version I have is pretty self-explanatory... reads, writes, requested writes, read sectors.
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Old 09-14-2006
i dont know the version of vmstat,
but i am using OSF1 unix.
The thing i want to learn is,
it is writing to where (to swap space or what?)
and i want to learn about unit?
(number of blocks, number of pages, bytes????)
and what kind of information does it provide?

vmstat -p:
2003160 VM TOT iowrites 14058172 VM TOT pgwrites
 
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