A System Monitoring Tool Primer Mar 14, 2010, 04 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5613 reads) (Other stories by Emmett Dulaney)
"Using the Vmstat Utility
"Receive summary information about the overall system usage with the vmstat utility. To view system usage information averaged over 5-second intervals, type the following command (the second argument indicates the total number of lines of output vmstat displays):
vmstat 5 8
"Output similar to the following listing will be displayed:"