swap question

From: Becki Kain <beckers_at_josephus.furph.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:40:04 -0400 (EDT)

this is on a 250/4/266, 4.0d, with 128 meg of ram with swap in over
commit mode.

"swapon -s" says 11% of 194MB swap (22MB) is in use. but if you add up
all the "percent real memory usage" from the ps listing, it looks like
only about 25% of real memory is in use:
   % ps -e -o pmem | awk '{sum += $1} END {print "sum = " sum}'
   sum = 24.8

so if real memory is only 25% in use, why is it swapping? or is something
else using up the other 75% real memory? or am i looking at this all
wrong? or do i need another beer? basically i was trying to figure out
if we need more memory, and if so how much so that no swapping happens?

thanks



Becki Kain
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Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 21:42:29 NZST

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