the first display line of vmstart would be since-boot, then it is
per-period numbers.


2015-01-28 11:44 GMT+01:00 Federico Giannici <giann...@neomedia.it>:

> I have to get (via command line) the number of interrupts per seconds in a
> given moment (OpenBSD 5.5 amd64).
>
> I noticed that the number shown by vmstat is different from the one shown
> from systat. For example, here are the interrupts shown from systat:
>
>  Interrupts
> 16457 total
>   400 clock
>     1 ipi
>  7894 em1
>     1 ehci0
>  8161 em3
>       ehci1
>       ahci0
>       ichiic0
>
> And at the same moment this is the output of vmstat:
>
>  procs    memory       page                    disks    traps          cpu
>  r b w    avm     fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr sd0 sd1  int   sys   cs us
> sy id
>  1 2 0  35852 7717980  269   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 12181   499   23  0
> 13 87
>
>
> It seems that the systat values are more realistic but I wasn't able to
> "capture" them in a non interactive way. It seems that "-b" or "-B" options
> don't work in the "vmstat" view of systat. As I specify the "-b" or "-B"
> options the only output is:
>
>    2 users    Load 0.29 0.33 0.33                     Wed Jan 28 11:35:11
> 2015
>
>
> So:
>
> 1) Is there a way to capture the "systat vmstat" output?
>
> 2) Why systat and vmstat give different values?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>


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