vmstat

[totoperdu]

hi,

when i do a 'vmstat -s', i have some 'Page Select Size Failures for Page size', what does it means? man vmstat is too brief.

vmstat -s
0 swap ins
0 swap outs
0 pages swapped in
0 pages swapped out
2010530 total address trans. faults taken
751115 page ins
0 page outs
45199 pages paged in
0 pages paged out
809533 reclaims from free list
740620 total page reclaims
49 intransit blocking page faults
1874302 zero fill pages created
1186543 zero fill page faults
807721 executable fill pages created
45520 executable fill page faults
0 swap text pages found in free list
188238 inode text pages found in free list
0 revolutions of the clock hand
18234 pages scanned for page out
0 pages freed by the clock daemon
20433244 cpu context switches
202418630 device interrupts
3104278 traps
71480077 system calls
118701 Page Select Size Successes for Page size 4K
222591 Page Select Size Successes for Page size 16K
6 Page Select Size Successes for Page size 64K
6 Page Select Size Successes for Page size 1M
118701 Page Select Size Failures for Page size 16K
13 Page Select Size Failures for Page size 64K
19 Page Select Size Failures for Page size 256K
19 Page Select Size Failures for Page size 1M
25 Page Select Size Failures for Page size 4M
25 Page Select Size Failures for Page size 16M
25 Page Select Size Failures for Page size 64M
1397296 Page Allocate Successes for Page size 4K
402882 Page Allocate Successes for Page size 16K
1 Page Allocate Successes for Page size 64K
1 Page Allocate Successes for Page size 1M
6 Page Allocate Successes for Page size 16M
3 Page Allocate Successes for Page size 64M
3495 Page Demotions for Page size 16K

thanks.

[Devender Khatana · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have a look here

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90690/vmstat.1.html

HTH,
Devender

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

refer to these thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=517502

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967745

regards.
(p.s. please remember to assign points.)

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

Refer these threads for more explanation,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=631582
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967745

-Arun