"man vmstat" says: swpd: the amount of virtual memory used (kB).
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Brock Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Swapped or not? We have a vendor doing some FTP stress-tests on one of our images, and their tech has sent the following data, cut and pasted from a Linux screen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 80 1768 1324 236552 0 0 224 180 270 294 0 1 94 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 371 369 1 0 1 229 -/+ buffers/cache: 139 231 Swap: 562 0 562 He mentions that "This indicates that swap was being used during the FTP." I presume he is referring to the value 80 under "swpd" in the memory category. That, however, does not seem to me to square with the swap-in and swap-out rates of 0 and the "used" value of 0 on the last line. What exactly does the "swpd" number mean? Thanks, Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
