Re: [PLUG] vmstat and swapping out pages; need more RAM?

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:59:01PM -0400, Douglas Muth wrote:
> It looks like there is a lot of swap space being used, even though
> you look okay on RAM.

Remember that a good VM system will actually *use* swap space, though
what it uses it for is another question with a long answer on which
reasonable people might disagree.  If you aren't using swap, you have
a bad VM system or you aren't do anything and have a tiny kernel.

What's bad, though, is things going in and out of swap too often.

-- 
 Jeff

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