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Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
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Initial release | February 1985 |
Operating system | Unix and Unix-like |
Type | Command |
vmstat (virtual memory statistics) is a computer system monitoring tool that collects and displays summary information about operating system memory, processes, interrupts, paging and block I/O. Users of vmstat
can specify a sampling interval which permits observing system activity in near-real time.
The vmstat tool is available on most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris.