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A System Monitoring Tool Primer
Mar 14, 2010, 04 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4291 reads)

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"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:"

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