From vmstat, the sr (scan rate) is better indicator - if you see sr column > 0,
it means the kernel is spending time searching for usable memory pages, and if
this does happen often, it is time to review the memory consumers/add more RAM.
Toomas
> On 8. Jul 2021, at 17:55, Richard L. Hamilton
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021, russell wrote:
System monitor is reporting Memory utilisation of 17.5GiB (27.5%) of 63.9GiB,
however it is reporting 115.7MiB (0.7%) of 15.9GiB of swap it being used.
I have always thought that swapping occurred when there is insufficient
memory for an application so
Because of the way swap is implemented on Solaris and descendants (on SVR4 in
general, maybe), the vmstat "swap" column is very misleading; check output of
swap -l (lower-case L option) instead, and if the free column is the same as
the blocks column, no real swap is actually being used.
Hi,
I am running Hipster 2021.04 with illumos-3f770aab81 and running System
Monitor 1.24.2.
System monitor is reporting Memory utilisation of 17.5GiB (27.5%) of
63.9GiB, however it is reporting 115.7MiB (0.7%) of 15.9GiB of swap it
being used.
I have always thought that swapping occurred when
