NAME
vm_stat —
show Mach virtual memory
statistics
SYNOPSIS
vm_stat |
[[-c count]
interval] |
DESCRIPTION
vm_stat displays Mach virtual memory
statistics. If the optional interval is specified,
then vm_stat will display the statistics every
interval seconds. In this case, each line of output
displays the change in each statistic (an interval
count of 1 displays the values per second). However, the first line of
output following each banner displays the system-wide totals for each
statistic. If a count is provided, the command will
terminate after count intervals. The following values
are displayed:
- Pages free
- the total number of free pages in the system.
- Pages active
- the total number of pages currently in use and pageable.
- Pages inactive
- the total number of pages on the inactive list.
- Pages speculative
- the total number of pages on the speculative list.
- Pages throttled
- the total number of pages on the throttled list (not wired but not pageable).
- Pages wired down
- the total number of pages wired down. That is, pages that cannot be paged out.
- Pages purgeable
- the total number of purgeable pages.
- Translation faults
- the number of times the "vm_fault" routine has been called.
- Pages copy-on-write
- the number of faults that caused a page to be copied (generally caused by copy-on-write faults).
- Pages zero filled
- the total number of pages that have been zero-filled on demand.
- Pages reactivated
- the total number of pages that have been moved from the inactive list to the active list (reactivated).
- Pages purged
- the total number of pages that have been purged.
- File-backed pages
- the total number of pages that are file-backed (non-swap)
- Anonymous pages
- the total number of pages that are anonymous
- Uncompressed pages
- the total number of pages (uncompressed) held within the compressor
- Pages used by VM compressor:
- the number of pages used to store compressed VM pages.
- Pages decompressed
- the total number of pages that have been decompressed by the VM compressor.
- Pages compressed
- the total number of pages that have been compressed by the VM compressor.
- Pageins
- the total number of requests for pages from a pager (such as the inode pager).
- Pageouts
- the total number of pages that have been paged out.
- Swapins
- the total number of compressed pages that have been swapped out to disk.
- Swapouts
- the total number of compressed pages that have been swapped back in from disk.
If interval is not specified, then
vm_stat displays all accumulated statistics along
with the page size.