1 .TH dvmstat 1m "$Date:: 2007-08-05 #$" "USER COMMANDS"
3 dvmstat \- vmstat by PID/name/command. Uses DTrace.
6 { \-p PID | \-n name | command }
8 This program provides vmstat like data for one particular PID, a
9 process name, or when running a command. It prints statistics
12 Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the
13 dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command.
17 stable - needs the vminfo provider.
21 examine this Process ID
24 examine processes with this name
33 examine processes called "tar",
38 run and examine "df -h",
58 executable page ins, Kbytes
61 executable page outs, Kbytes
64 anonymous page ins, Kbytes
67 anonymous page outs, Kbytes
70 filesystem page ins, Kbytes
73 filesystem page outs, Kbytes
79 Most of the statistics are in units of kilobytes, unlike the
80 original vmstat command which sometimes uses pages.
83 See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the
84 Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked
85 examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.
87 dvmstat will run until Ctrl\-C is hit, or the command it is
93 dtrace(1M), vmstat(1M)