On Fri, 26 May 2006, Josh Fisher wrote:

> Top shows over half of your 3 GB swap space being utilized. Almost as
> much memory is in swap as is in physical RAM. Swap is perhaps being
> thrashed.

Not much I/O was going on so I don't think so. Ah! I was using the
wrong version of top. A more accurate version shows this:

>last pid: 17255;  load avg:  0.15,  0.14,  0.13;   up 21+09:32:08  21:25:57
>38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 on cpu
>CPU states: 93.4% idle,  2.1% user,  4.5% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
>Memory: 2048M phys mem, 431M free mem, 2037M swap, 1513M free swap
>
>   PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
> 11507 root       3  59    0 5800K 2424K sleep   43:34  5.36% bacula-fd
> 11613 daemon    18  59    0 4416K 1984K sleep    8:43  4.75% nfsmapid
> 11509 root      14  59    0 1385M  839M sleep  110.3H  0.46% bacula-dir
> 17255 root       1  59    0 2944K 1784K cpu      0:00  0.29% top-5.10-sparcv
>   572 mysql     11  59    0  309M  205M sleep  251:36  0.26% mysqld
> 16833 root       1  59    0 4112K 1960K sleep    0:40  0.01% sshd
>   450 root       1 100  -20 2344K  824K sleep    3:14  0.01% xntpd
>     7 root      12  59    0 8040K 3632K sleep    0:43  0.00% svc.startd
>   577 root       1  59    0 7504K 1600K sleep    1:26  0.00% sendmail
>   429 root      12  59    0 5592K  856K sleep    0:38  0.00% fmd
>   111 root      31  59    0 4704K 2816K sleep    2:15  0.00% nscd
> 11501 root       3  59    0 6640K 2848K sleep  236:31  0.00% bacula-sd

Ie, ~500MB swapped out (basically idle pages from the other processes.

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