On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 9:29 AM Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > vmstat only swows pi an po, pages paged in and out, not swap usage. > > For sysyat: the vmstat view does not show swap usage, but it does show > paging/swap traffic. The swap view does (per swap device), as does the > uvm view (swpginuse, this is a total swap pages in use). > > top also shows swap usage. > > -Otto > I know, but what I am trying to say is I don't know how to compute a "big total" memory usage needed before hitting swap. No matter how I add, the final number is not in the line with the dmesg reported memory. Here is top: $ top load averages: 0.33, 0.23, 0.10 thinkc.my.domain 12:20:39 47 processes: 46 idle, 1 on processor up 4:17 CPU0: 22.4% user, 0.0% nice, 3.8% sys, 0.6% spin, 0.6% intr, 72.7% idle CPU1: 21.2% user, 0.0% nice, 3.0% sys, 0.2% spin, 0.0% intr, 75.6% idle Memory: Real: 1235M/2914M act/tot Free: 4505M Cache: 1054M Swap: 0K/7913M

