vmstat has different output format between RHEL5 and RHEL6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • In RHEL5, we can monitor 'wa' and 'st' value of vmstat by using this command:
[root@rhel570 ~]# vmstat 1 |gawk '/[0-9]$/ {print $1,$2}'
1 0
0 0
0 0

But in RHEL6, we get no output using the same command:

[root@rhel671 ~]# vmstat 1 |gawk '/[0-9]$/ {print $1,$2}'
^C
  • vmstat has different output format between RHEL5 and RHEL6.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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