Re: Swap Usage with Kernel 2.4.14

From: Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 16:43:27 EST


On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 10:05:02AM -0500, safemode wrote:
> Also, your box may not be actually doing much swapping if any at all. vmstat
> will tell if you're actually doing any swapping at a given time.
> Allocation may carry over to swap, but it doesn't effect performance in any
> way in doing so. That's why looking at anything but vmstat really wont tell
> you much about what's actually being used in swap.

procinfo will also list the number of swap(in|out) since the last reboot...
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