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Index: usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8
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--- usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8
+++ usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8
@@ -248,31 +248,33 @@
displays the following information:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It procs
-Information about the numbers of processes in various states.
+Information about the number of threads in various states:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It r
-in run queue
+running or in run queue
.It b
blocked for resources (i/o, paging, etc.)
.It w
-runnable or short sleeper (< 20 secs) but swapped
+swapped out
.El
.It memory
Information about the usage of virtual and real memory.
-Virtual pages (reported in units of 1024 bytes) are considered active if
-they belong to processes which are running or have run in the last 20
-seconds.
+Active virtual memory is a sum of all of the virtual pages belonging
+to active virtual memory objects.
+Active virtual memory objects are mapped in at least one process.
+Note that the entire memory object's size is considered active even if
+only a subset of the object's pages are currently mapped.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It avm
-active virtual pages
+active virtual memory
.It fre
size of the free list
.El
.It page
Information about page faults and paging activity.
-These are averaged each five seconds, and given in units per second.
+These are given in units per second.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It flt
@@ -290,7 +292,7 @@
.\" .It de
.\" anticipated short term memory shortfall
.It sr
-pages scanned by clock algorithm, per-second
+pages scanned by clock algorithm
.El
.It disks
Disk operations per second (this field is system dependent).
@@ -319,15 +321,15 @@
will only display the given devices or the devices matching the pattern,
and will not randomly select other devices in the system.
.It faults
-Trap/interrupt rate averages per second over last 5 seconds.
+Trap/interrupt rates per second.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It in
-device interrupts per interval (including clock interrupts)
+device interrupts (including clock interrupts)
.It sy
-system calls per interval
+system calls
.It cs
-cpu context switch rate (switches/interval)
+cpu context switches
.El
.It cpu
Breakdown of percentage usage of CPU time.
@@ -336,7 +338,7 @@
.It us
user time for normal and low priority processes
.It sy
-system time
+system and interrupt time
.It id
cpu idle
.El
@@ -352,10 +354,7 @@
The command:
.Dl vmstat -w 5
will print what the system is doing every five
-seconds; this is a good choice of printing interval since this is how often
-some of the statistics are sampled in the system.
-Others vary every second and running the output for a while will make it
-apparent which are recomputed every second.
+seconds.
.Pp
The command:
.Dl vmstat -p da -p cd -w 1

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