Virtual Memory Question

From: Sam Washburn <samw_at_toccoafalls.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:53:05 -0400

Is this kosher?

at 3:43 today I did this.

% vmstat -s
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
      5716 active pages
         0 inactive pages
      7273 free pages
      1953 wired pages
    536125 virtual memory page faults <--
     53460 copy-on-write page faults <--
    206612 zero fill page faults <--
         0 reattaches from reclaim list
    133558 pages paged in
         0 pages paged out
    941739 task and thread context switches
    169926 device interrupts
 156523902 system calls

Exactly one minute later.

% vmstat -s
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
      5717 active pages
         0 inactive pages
      7272 free pages
      1953 wired pages
    536533 virtual memory page faults <--
     53570 copy-on-write page faults <--
    206733 zero fill page faults <--
         0 reattaches from reclaim list
    133603 pages paged in
         0 pages paged out
    957317 task and thread context switches
    170766 device interrupts
 156533516 system calls

Is that many faults per minute common?!?!

Sam Washburn
Toccoa Falls College Internet Services
<samw_at_toccoafalls.edu>
Received on Fri Sep 13 1996 - 22:21:27 NZST

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