Turns out the man page of vmstat in procps was changed on Oct 8 2002:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/procps/procps/vmstat.8?r1=1.1r2=1.2
in reaction to a debian bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=157935
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Markus Bertheau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello!
My name is TTK, and I'm a software engineer at the Internet Archive's
Data Repository department. We have recently started using postgresql
for a couple of projects (we have historically been a MySQL outfit),
and today my co-worker noticed psql eating memory like mad when invoked
