What Is Swpd in Vmstat

1. According to the man page of vmstat , ‘swpd’ means the amount of virtual memory used. As my understanding, for most cases it should be zero unless the physical CPU is out of space.

What is Swapd in vmstat?

vmstat (virtual memory statistics) is a valuable monitoring utility, which also provides information about block IO and CPU activity in addition to memory. … Memory swpd: the amount of virtual memory used. free: the amount of idle memory. buff: the amount of memory used as buffers.

What is WA in vmstat?

The vmstat wa column is the percentage of time that the CPU was idle with pending local disk I/O and NFS-mounted disks. If there is at least one outstanding I/O to a disk when wait is running, the time is classified as waiting for I/O.

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

Environmental Science & Climate Journalist

James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.

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