I was trying compare kstat -p -n vminfo with vmstat output regarding
swap and free. The numbers of course did not match even after
pages were converted into KB.
So I looked at the source for vmstat and saw that the vminfo numbers
were being divided by something called updates.
I found updates in /usr/include/sys/sysinfo.h
sysinfo_t
Looking around in that file I found
typedef struct vminfo { /* (update freq) update action */
uint64_t freemem; /* (1 sec) += freemem in pages */
uint64_t swap_resv; /* (1 sec) += reserved swap in pages */
uint64_t swap_alloc; /* (1 sec) += allocated swap in pages */
uint64_t swap_avail; /* (1 sec) += unreserved swap in pages */
uint64_t swap_free; /* (1 sec) += unallocated swap in pages */
} vminfo_t;
So by dividing by updates and converting to KB I got comparable
numbers.
But this implies to me that freemem is really a running sum that gets
updated once per second ?
And if I am trying to monitor programatically the amount of virtual
memory available would I use freemem/updates+swap_avail/updates because
swap_free contains allocations ?
Thanks,
rick
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