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          --- old/usr/src/man/man1m/vmstat.1m
          +++ new/usr/src/man/man1m/vmstat.1m
   1    1  '\" te
   2    2  .\"  Copyright (c) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
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   6      -.TH VMSTAT 1M "Mar 23, 2009"
        6 +.TH VMSTAT 1M "April 14, 2015"
   7    7  .SH NAME
   8    8  vmstat \- report virtual memory statistics
   9    9  .SH SYNOPSIS
  10   10  .LP
  11   11  .nf
  12      -\fBvmstat\fR [\fB-cipqsS\fR] [\fB-T\fR u | d] [\fIdisks\fR] [\fIinterval\fR [\fIcount\fR]]
       12 +\fBvmstat\fR [\fB-ipqsS\fR] [\fB-T\fR u | d] [\fIdisks\fR] [\fIinterval\fR [\fIcount\fR]]
  13   13  .fi
  14   14  
  15   15  .SH DESCRIPTION
  16      -.sp
  17   16  .LP
  18   17  \fBvmstat\fR reports virtual memory statistics regarding kernel thread, virtual
  19   18  memory, disk, trap, and \fBCPU\fR activity.
  20   19  .sp
  21   20  .LP
  22   21  On \fBMP\fR (multi-processor) systems, \fBvmstat\fR averages the number of
  23   22  \fBCPUs\fR into the output. For per-processor statistics, see \fBmpstat\fR(1M).
  24   23  .sp
  25   24  .LP
  26   25  \fBvmstat\fR only supports statistics for certain devices. For more general
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  42   41  <<processors added: 1, 3>>
  43   42  <<processors removed: 1, 3>>
  44   43  .fi
  45   44  .in -2
  46   45  .sp
  47   46  
  48   47  .sp
  49   48  .LP
  50   49  See \fI\fR for device naming conventions for disks.
  51   50  .SH OPTIONS
  52      -.sp
  53   51  .LP
  54   52  The following options are supported:
  55   53  .sp
  56   54  .ne 2
  57   55  .na
  58      -\fB\fB-c\fR\fR
  59      -.ad
  60      -.RS 13n
  61      -Report cache flushing statistics. This option is obsolete, and no longer
  62      -meaningful. This option might be removed in a future version of Solaris.
  63      -.RE
  64      -
  65      -.sp
  66      -.ne 2
  67      -.na
  68   56  \fB\fB-i\fR\fR
  69   57  .ad
  70   58  .RS 13n
  71   59  Report the number of interrupts per device. \fIcount\fR and \fIinterval\fR does
  72   60  not apply to the \fB-i\fR option.
  73   61  .RE
  74   62  
  75   63  .sp
  76   64  .ne 2
  77   65  .na
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 201  189  .na
 202  190  \fB\fB-T\fR \fBu\fR |  \fBd\fR\fR
 203  191  .ad
 204  192  .RS 13n
 205  193  Specify \fBu\fR for a printed representation of the internal representation of
 206  194  time. See \fBtime\fR(2). Specify \fBd\fR for standard date format. See
 207  195  \fBdate\fR(1).
 208  196  .RE
 209  197  
 210  198  .SH OPERANDS
 211      -.sp
 212  199  .LP
 213  200  The following operands are supported:
 214  201  .sp
 215  202  .ne 2
 216  203  .na
 217  204  \fB\fIcount\fR\fR
 218  205  .ad
 219  206  .RS 12n
 220  207  Specifies the number of times that the statistics are repeated. \fIcount\fR
 221  208  does not apply to the \fB-i\fR and \fB-s\fR options.
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 505  492  .RS 6n
 506  493  idle time
 507  494  .RE
 508  495  
 509  496  When executed in a \fBzone\fR and if the pools facility is active, all of the
 510  497  above only report actitivity on the processors in the processor set of the
 511  498  \fBzone\fR's pool.
 512  499  .RE
 513  500  
 514  501  .SH ATTRIBUTES
 515      -.sp
 516  502  .LP
 517  503  See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
 518  504  .sp
 519  505  
 520  506  .sp
 521  507  .TS
 522  508  box;
 523  509  c | c
 524  510  l | l .
 525  511  ATTRIBUTE TYPE  ATTRIBUTE VALUE
 526  512  _
 527  513  Interface Stability     See below.
 528  514  .TE
 529  515  
 530  516  .sp
 531  517  .LP
 532  518  Invocation is evolving. Human readable output is unstable.
 533  519  .SH SEE ALSO
 534      -.sp
 535  520  .LP
 536  521  \fBdate\fR(1), \fBsar\fR(1), \fBiostat\fR(1M), \fBmpstat\fR(1M), \fBsar\fR(1M),
 537  522  \fBtime\fR(2), \fBattributes\fR(5)
 538  523  .SH NOTES
 539      -.sp
 540  524  .LP
 541  525  The sum of CPU utilization might vary slightly from 100 because of rounding
 542  526  errors in the production of a percentage figure.
 543  527  .sp
 544      -.LP
 545      -The \fB-c\fR option (Report cache flushing statistics) is not supported in this
 546      -release.
    
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