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Hi Kernel I/O Experts, I have a question regarding the pgpgin and pgpgout counters in /proc/vmstat, specifically focusing on pgpgin. I’ve been exploring performance monitoring tools like vmstat and ...
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So, from what I've found, there are multiple versions of vmstat out there for various OSes like Linux, BSD, and Solaris. I'm referring to Linux's vmstat procps-ng 3.3.17 . Now, to be more specific, ...
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I am trying to figure out what the difference is between paging and swapping on linux. My question mainly relates to the output vmstat gives you. Example: $ vmstat -s 8022500 K total memory ...
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In attempting to calculate the free memory under Solaris 10, I noticed I get different results using vmstat versus kstat or mdb. The basic commands: /usr/bin/kstat -p unix::system_pages:freemem | cut -...
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I've read some articles about Linux memory management and understand (perhaps not proficient) the concept of free memory, available memory, swap, etc. But when I check with the following command: cat /...
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My /proc/vmstat contains the following rows: pgalloc_dma 0 pgalloc_dma32 288126724 pgalloc_normal 33952724486 pgalloc_movable 0 I'm wondering what they are measurements of. Are they counters of the ...
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May I know how to calculate total memory utilization and percent of a Solaris 11.3 machine? Am I wrong in below calculation? or any other way? memfree=$(vmstat 1 2 | awk '{print $5}' | tail -1) ...
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In the man vmstat there is the following explanation about the first line: The first report produced gives averages since the last reboot. Additional reports give information on a sampling period ...
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I've read in a few places now that "load average" shown in top, uptime, and other places is based on the "average length of run queue". I'm looking at the first column in vmstat with the header r1 ...
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My goal is to define container definitions("ContainerDefinitions") with appropriate memory size needed in RAM to launch the docker container. For example, below code snippet for jenkins container(...
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I am using vmstat on my linux machine, and it shows ➜ ~ vmstat ...
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I am trying to monitor the swapping activity in a Linux Server in the last, say, 1, 5 or 15 minutes. One way is to run vmstat and keep watching si and so counters during these intervals. However how ...
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I am trying to improve my understanding, following this (so far) unanswered question: Possible limiting factor during upgrade of Fedora VM - not disk or cpu or network? I ran the following test load, ...
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How to print column free using awk or sed command? Depends on vmstat version column, free may change from column number 5 to something else. bash-3.00$ vmstat 1 1|tail -2 r b w swap free re mf pi po ...
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The man page for vmstat states, for example for wa section, " time spent waiting for IO" but what is the unit of time? Is it in seconds?
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