counting total PIDs since the server been started

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 14), Vlad GALU said:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:55:21 +0000, Chris Elsworth <chris at shagged.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:33:45PM +0300, scream wrote:
> > >   I`m trying to solve this puzzle >"how to get statistics about
> > >   total count of fork`ed\exec`ed processes since the server been
> > >   rebooted and even make some RRD-like graphs".I need it to make
> > >   some graphs about server perfomance and stability.Could anyone
> > >   point me to any usefull docs.
> > 
> > OTTOMH without consulting any docs, are these any use:
> > 
> > # sysctl -a | grep fork
> > vm.stats.vm.v_forks: 4795379
> > vm.stats.vm.v_vforks: 1017309
> > vm.stats.vm.v_rforks: 0
>
> Hehe, I never noticed those.

Most Unixes provide these stats under the "vmstat -s" command also.

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	Dan Nelson
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