.TH dvmstat 1m "$Date: 2015/09/30 22:01:09 $" "USER COMMANDS" .SH NAME dvmstat \- vmstat by PID/name/command. Uses DTrace. .SH SYNOPSIS .B dvmstat { \-p PID | \-n name | command } .SH DESCRIPTION This program provides vmstat like data for one particular PID, a process name, or when running a command. It prints statistics every second. Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command. .SH OS Solaris .SH STABILITY stable - needs the vminfo provider. .SH OPTIONS .TP \-p PID examine this Process ID .TP \-n name examine processes with this name .PP .SH EXAMPLES .TP examine PID 1871, # .B dvmstat \-p 1871 .TP examine processes called "tar", # .B dvmstat \-n tar .TP run and examine "df -h", # .B dvmstat df -h .PP .SH FIELDS .TP re page reclaims, Kbytes .TP maj major faults, Kbytes .TP mf minor faults, Kbytes .TP fr page frees, Kbytes .TP epi executable page ins, Kbytes .TP epo executable page outs, Kbytes .TP api anonymous page ins, Kbytes .TP apo anonymous page outs, Kbytes .TP fpi filesystem page ins, Kbytes .TP fpo filesystem page outs, Kbytes .TP sy system calls, number .PP .SH NOTES Most of the statistics are in units of kilobytes, unlike the original vmstat command which sometimes uses pages. .PP .SH DOCUMENTATION See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output. .SH EXIT dvmstat will run until Ctrl\-C is hit, or the command it is examining ends. .SH AUTHOR Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] .SH SEE ALSO dtrace(1M), vmstat(1M) |