Hi, I'm working on a rush, special project that needs to determine if swapping has increased (as a result of doing something *interesting*). The program is written in Perl and so far, it looks at SwapFree and SwapTotal from /proc/meminfo. It computes a value of SwapUsed from these values and saves this value as a baseline. Later, the program does some *interesting* things and needs to determine if swapping has increased. So, it's off to /proc/meminfo again, recalculate SwapUsed, compare against baseline, and make an educated guess if any increased activity is the direct result of the program's Linux alterations. Yuch.
Is there a "better way" to determine when swapping has increased? Are there other /proc files that might be useful? Trapping the output from vmstat for "si" and "so" values might be interesting, but certainly not clean (I'd rather find these values directly if I could). Cheers, Arty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
