June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
4h 4m
English
A different aspect of memory management can be achieved by using the vmstat command. Considered to be a summary reporting feature associated with memory, processes, and paging, vmstat can be seen in action by typing:
# vmstat -a
Having used the -a option to call on all active and inactive memory, the most endearing columns shown under vmstat's output are best described as follows:
si: This column shows the value swapped in from diskso: This column shows the value swapped out to diskbi: This column shows the value sent to block devicesbo: This column shows the value received from block devicesus: This column shows the user timesy: This column shows the system timeid: This column shows the idle timeThe display does look ...
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