sys fault in vmstat what shows.

[kuldeep saroha]

sys fault meams in vmstat output.
faults Trap/interrupt rate averages per second over last 5 seconds.
sr7_pr#vmstat
procs memory page faults cpu
r b w avm free re at pi po fr de sr in sy cs us sy id
3 0 0 330977 27512 425 2 0 0 0 0 0 961 8654 1263 28 11 62

what is significance of it.

[Dennis Handly]

vmstat(1) says: System calls per second

If you had glance you could see the types of these system calls.

[Sandeep_Chaudhary]

faults
Report the trap/interrupt rates (per second).

in (non clock) device interrupts

sy system calls

cs CPU context switches