vmstat

I am seeing a lot of de on one of my machines and I thought this was a sign that we would be running into memory issues soon, but was told by a sys admin that this was normal.

Any help on this is appreciated. I have looked at the man page and de is expected shortfall so I would think this is a sign that we need more memory. I understand that much of memory can be used for file caching which throws off the stats, but that doesn't help me see where we are . Any pointers to other info is appreciated too.

Dave Turner

 procs memory page disk faults cpu  r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 s6 sd in sy cs us sy id  0 0 0 5800 5832 1 18 0 31 33 38312 0 0 0 0 5 172 701 412 2 1 97  0 0 0 3717664 64328 1 1 0 8 8 31040 0 0 0 0 1 208 520 322 1 0 99  0 0 0 3717664 64328 1 0 0 8 8 25144 0 0 0 0 1 231 690 387 1 1 98  0 0 0 3717664 64328 0 0 0 8 8 20376 0 0 0 0 1 307 1228 536 1 0 99  0 0 0 3717664 64328 1 0 0 8 8 16512 0 0 0 0 2 139 183 161 0 0 100  0 0 0 3717664 64328 1 0 0 8 8 13384 0 0 0 0 1 193 477 284 0 0 99  0 0 0 3717664 64328 0 0 0 0 0 10848 0 0 0 0 0 172 359 240 0 0 100  0 0 0 3717664 64328 1 0 0 8 8 8792 0 0 0 0 1 143 196 189 0 1 99  0 0 0 3717664 64328 1 0 0 8 8 7128 0 0 0 0 3 183 563 271 0 0 100  0 0 0 3717512 64280 0 187 0 4 4 19928 0 0 0 0 2 264 1046 425 1 1 98  0 0 0 3717664 64320 1 0 0 20 20 16144 0 0 0 0 3 171 339 242 0 1 99  0 0 0 3717664 64344 1 0 0 8 8 13088 0 0 0 0 1 204 460 306 0 0 100  0 0 0 3717664 64344 0 0 0 0 0 10608 0 9 0 0 0 190 152 142 0 1 99 Received on Wed Nov 08 2000 - 12:36:16 CST