Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:44:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:43:53 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:33268 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:43:46 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:43:27 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: safemode Cc: Alvaro Lopes , war , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Swap Usage with Kernel 2.4.14 Message-ID: <20011117134327.G21354@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: safemode , Alvaro Lopes , war , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <3BF5B275.215D6D44@starband.net> <1005995937.694.0.camel@dwarf> <20011117150505Z281761-17408+15446@vger.kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011117150505Z281761-17408+15446@vger.kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/