>>>>> "Sonia" == Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sonia> * On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:16:04PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: Sonia> <correct me if I'm wrong> vmstat is your friend. A figure Sonia> consistently > 0 for the so column (swap out) often indicates Sonia> problems. My understanding is the memory manager in 2.6 will Sonia> use a lot of swap on purpose. </correct me if I'm wrong> $ vmstat 5 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 65580 12984 155944 302520 0 0 5 8 3 2 11 1 86 2 Actually, si and so refer to entire processes being swapped, not paging traffic, so they'll never be non-zero on a modern Linux system. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
