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From: smc@styx.desktalk.com (Steven M Cohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: vmstat
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 2 Apr 91 15:00:00 GMT
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Regarding the two questions on vmstat(8) in v10n57, vmstat is somewhat
brain dead.  I was up in Milpitas at Sun's advanced System Administration
class, and our instructor told us that both fields 'avm' and 'at' were
meaningless.  On my system, they are always zero.  I usually get good data
for sr, however, the system must be pretty heavily loaded to get a value.
In general, you have to be paging fairly heavily to get this number above
zero for any length of time.

I have class notes available by fax for anyone really interested.

Steve Cohn
smc@desktalk.com