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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Ok, if I can figure out what this means
>
> procs      memory      page                   disk   faults      cpu
>  r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr ad0   in   sy  cs us  
> sy id
>  1 10 0  435856   5288  260  22  63  43 334 9137   0  447  134 782  
> 11  6 83

You need to either run vmstat with an interval (3 or 5 works OK) for  
a while, and see the load over time, or you can run "vmstat -s" and  
get detailed statistics.

-- 
-Chuck