From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 9:51:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from michael.checkpoint.com (michael.checkpoint.com [199.203.73.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340D337B406 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SHAGWELL (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by michael.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA20331; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:50:58 +0200 (IST) From: "Moshe Ashkenazi" To: "'Mike Meyer'" Cc: Subject: RE: "Netstat -s" and pstat -T Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:55:30 +0200 Message-ID: <00ba01c15d75$daedaa10$97025a3e@SHAGWELL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <15320.16241.228684.9854@guru.mired.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sorry I did notice I wrote "pstat" ;-) About "vmstat" - "avm" is active virtual pages and "fre" is size of the free list 1. what is free list ? 2. I know avm include swap file, but if the machine using swap how it still have free memory ? I will appreciate if you can explain it. Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Mike Meyer Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:36 PM To: Moshe Ashkenazi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Netstat -s" and pstat -T Moshe Ashkenazi types: > Hi, List - > > I'm new to FreeBSD so forgive me if my question > Will sound stupid. > > I'm tiring to get resource status from my FreeBSD > Machine with "vmstat -s" and "pstat -T" > > It seems that those two command ("vmstat -s" and "pstat -T") Return > large numbers at the output. I already explained pstat -T. Check the list archives if you need it. > I have read the man page for vmstat and pstat but they are not explain > to match. > > I will appreciate if someone can explain or address me to web site > Which explain the most important numbers from the output If you just want the most important numbers, *don't* ask for everything. Just run "vmstat". That provides the most important numbers, and they are mostly explained in the manual page. If there are some of those that you don't understand, ask specifically about them. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message