vmstat: All the Fields

In Part 1, Brendan Gregg discussed the key fields of vmstat, a performance tool used in Solaris-based operating systems, including Solaris 10, SmartOS, Illumos that shows the health of the entire system.

Here, Part 2 covers all the fields in detail.

Part 3 will talk about how vmstat works in Joyent's SmartOS.

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Science & Technology

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• Brendan Gregg
• vmstat
• performance
• Solaris
• IllumOS
• SmartOS