On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 04:19:26PM +0530, Pintu Kumar wrote: > At times there is a need to regularly monitor vm counters while we > reproduce some issue, or it could be as simple as gathering some system > statistics when we run some scenario and every time we like to start from > beginning. > The current steps are: > Dump /proc/vmstat > Run some scenario > Dump /proc/vmstat again > Generate some data or graph > reboot and repeat again You can subtract the first vmstat dump from the second to get the event delta for the scenario run. That's what I do, and I'd assume most people are doing. Am I missing something?