Bug 101576
| Summary: | vmstat man paged does not describe 'cache' field of the output | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Steve Dickson <steved> |
| Component: | procps | Assignee: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | sbonnevi |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-02-11 13:33:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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The latest version of vmstat (procps-2.0.13-9E) is even further out of sync with
the man page. The 'w' ("swapped out processes") field is gone, no big loss, and
there's a new 'wa' field for CPU time (possibly I/O wait?), but neither change
is documented.
Mass reassign to new owner Mass reassign to new owner Fixed in latest release 3.1.15 |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: the vmstat man page describes all of the memory output fields but the 'cache' field: Memory swpd: the amount of virtual memory used (kB). free: the amount of idle memory (kB). buff: the amount of memory used as buffers (kB). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man vmstat 2. 3. Additional info: