Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!mcnc!rti!bnrunix!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: cd@sei.cmu.edu (Chas DiFatta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: vmstat(1) on a 4/490, trustworthy? Keywords: Software Message-ID: <2033@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 21 Mar 91 21:31:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 6 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: 13 Mar 91 19:56:20 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 59, message 3 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu We have a 4/490 that's *very* heavily overloaded by bulk NFS traffic, X terminal sessions, etc etc. Does anyone know if vmstat(1) can be trusted to give some type of reasonable representation of virtual memory statistics. The OS version is 4.1_PSR_A. Chas DiFatta chas@sei.cmu.edu