Hey hey.

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:09 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> <correct me if I'm wrong>
> vmstat is your friend. A figure consistently > 0 for the so column
> (swap out) often indicates problems. My understanding is the memory
> manager in 2.6 will use a lot of swap on purpose.
> </correct me if I'm wrong>

That's the way I understand it as well. Ran vmstat over a 15 minute
period yesterday that showed no activity at all either in or out of
swap. I've been meaning to run it over a longer period today, but with
one thing and another I've spent about three minutes actually in front
of a computer today.

> IBM do a good book on Linux Performance Tuning, which explains this
> well.

Oh, cool. I'll have to add it to my reading list. Thanks.

-- 
Pete

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