Just for kicks, I added an /etc/rc.d/vmstat to my DEC 5900-260 and
dumped the "vmstat -s" numbers at the end of the boot sequence:

     4096 bytes per page
    23431 pages managed
    19910 pages free
     1026 pages active
      566 pages inactive
        0 pages paging
       40 pages wired
        1 reserve pagedaemon pages
        5 reserve kernel pages
       64 minimum free pages
       85 target free pages
        0 target inactive pages
     7810 maximum wired pages
        1 swap devices
    26532 swap pages
        0 swap pages in use
        0 swap allocations
    48492 anons
    47874 free anons
    18056 total faults taken
    18172 traps
    21251 device interrupts
     4915 cpu context switches
     4665 software interrupts
    14036 system calls
        0 pagein requests
        0 pageout requests
        0 swap ins
        0 swap outs
        0 pages swapped in
        0 pages swapped out
      203 forks total
       27 forks blocked parent
       30 forks shared address space with parent
        0 faults with no memory
        0 faults with no anons
        0 faults had to wait on pages
        0 faults found released page
      978 faults relock (978 ok)
     5908 anon page faults
        0 anon retry faults
     1897 amap copy faults
      331 neighbour anon page faults
      573 neighbour object page faults
     9808 locked pager get faults
      978 unlocked pager get faults
     3857 anon faults
     2051 anon copy on write faults
     9602 object faults
      206 promote copy faults
     2340 promote zero fill faults
        0 times daemon wokeup
        0 revolutions of the clock hand
        0 times daemon attempted swapout
        0 pages freed by daemon
        0 pages scanned by daemon
        0 anonymous pages scanned by daemon
        0 object pages scanned by daemon
        0 pages reactivated
        0 pages found busy by daemon
        0 total pending pageouts
        0 pages deactivated
     4999 total name lookups
          cache hits (76% pos + 2% neg) system 15% per-process
          deletions 0%, falsehits 0%, toolong 0%

Simon.