From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 9:54:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5414A37B405 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 94429 invoked by uid 100); 24 Oct 2001 16:54:46 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15318.62038.62015.654350@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:54:46 -0500 To: "Moshe Ashkenazi" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vmstat -s & pstat -T command In-Reply-To: <59986775@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Moshe Ashkenazi types: > I'm new to FreeBSD so forgive me if my question > Will sound stupid. It sounds like you haven't read the manual, which is a Bad Thing(TM). > 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. The man pages provide descriptions of what comes out of those two commands. Not very detailed, I admit. > I will appreciate if someone can explain or address me to web site > Which explain the most important numbers from the output. > Numbers pstat -T is easy - it's the number used and total available for kernel file descriptors and swap space. If you don't know what those are, follow the advice for vmstat -s. vmstat -s is another story completely. I'd recommend buying Kirk McKusick's BSD internals book. I can't think of anything else that's liable to cover it all. 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