Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:55:30 +0200 From: "Moshe Ashkenazi" <moshea@checkpoint.com> To: "'Mike Meyer'" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: "Netstat -s" and pstat -T Message-ID: <00ba01c15d75$daedaa10$97025a3e@SHAGWELL> In-Reply-To: <15320.16241.228684.9854@guru.mired.org>
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I'm sorry I did notice I wrote "pstat" ;-)
About "vmstat" -
"avm" is active virtual pages and "fre" is size of the free list
1. what is free list ?
2. I know avm include swap file, but if the machine using swap
how it still have free memory ?
I will appreciate if you can explain it.
Thanks,
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Mike Meyer
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:36 PM
To: Moshe Ashkenazi
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: "Netstat -s" and pstat -T
Moshe Ashkenazi <moshea@checkpoint.com> types:
> Hi, List -
>
> I'm new to FreeBSD so forgive me if my question
> Will sound stupid.
>
> I'm tiring to get resource status from my FreeBSD
> Machine with "vmstat -s" and "pstat -T"
>
> It seems that those two command ("vmstat -s" and "pstat -T") Return
> large numbers at the output.
I already explained pstat -T. Check the list archives if you need it.
> I have read the man page for vmstat and pstat but they are not explain
> to match.
>
> I will appreciate if someone can explain or address me to web site
> Which explain the most important numbers from the output
If you just want the most important numbers, *don't* ask for everything.
Just run "vmstat". That provides the most important numbers, and they
are mostly explained in the manual page. If there are some of those that
you don't understand, ask specifically about them.
<mike
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