Re: Swap Usage with Kernel 2.4.14

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 10:05:02AM -0500, safemode wrote:
> Also, your box may not be actually doing much swapping if any at all.  vmstat 
> will tell if you're actually doing any swapping at a given time.  
> Allocation may carry over to swap, but it doesn't effect performance in any 
> way in doing so.  That's why looking at anything but vmstat really wont tell 
> you much about what's actually being used in swap. 

procinfo will also list the number of swap(in|out) since the last reboot...