Arty Ecock wrote: > 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).
The source of vmstat's data is /proc/stat (line starting with "swap") on 2.4 kernels and /proc/vmstat (lines "pswpin" and "pswpout") on 2.6 kernels. The fields count number of pages swapped in/out since system boot; vmstat shows the difference in those fields per display interval. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand Linux for S/390 Design & Development IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicher Str. 220, 71032 Boeblingen Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 --- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
