I spent years typing vmstat into Solaris machines after reading Cockroft's "Sun Performance and Tuning" book. You would think there would be something better th

I spent years typing vmstat into Solaris machines after reading Cockroft's "Sun Performance and Tuning" book. You would think there would be something better these days, Solaris at least moved on to dtrace. Now I use atop on Linux which isn't as low level as dtrace but is much nicer than vmstat.