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Question on vmstats

spammenot66
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Whats the definition for the vmstats field captured through the Splunk Add-on for Unix and Linux?

that was what ive gathered so far...

memTotalMBtotal memory
memFreeMBthe amount of idle memory
memUsedMBtotal used memory
memFreePct% of free memory
memUsedPct% memory used
pgPageOut 
swapUsedPctthe percentage amount of virtual memory used
pgSwapOut 
cSwitchesThe number of context switches per second
interruptsThe number of interrupts per second, including the clock
forksnumber of forks 
processesnumber of processes
threadsnumber of threads
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