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gkkiran77
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vmstat

The output of vmstat is like
vmstat -d
procs memory page faults cpu
r b w avm free re at pi po fr de sr in sy cs us sy id
1 0 0 1000543 446781 27 12 0 0 0 0 0 712 3370 329 9 1 90

but the avm is showing the actual VM
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Bhadresh
Trusted Contributor

Re: vmstat

avm indicates Active Virtual pages.

Virtual pages are considered active if they belong to processes that are running or have run in the last 20 seconds.

To know more about vmstat:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/vmstat.1.html

>but the avm is showing the actual VM
Can you please explain this?

Regards,
Bhadresh