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To: Rob Snow <rsnow@legend.txdirect.net>
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Subject: Re: Swapinfo again (never decreases) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jun 95 01:50:37 CDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:01:31 -0700
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>Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
>/dev/wd0s3b      48384    10400    37856    22%    Interleaved
>
>
>********
>********
>Back to my login shell and LOOK 19% of swapspace is used...
>
>  PID TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>  149 v0  Ss     0:00.60 -tcsh (tcsh)
>  248 v0  R+     0:00.04 ps
>
>Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
>/dev/wd0s3b      48384     9016    39240    19%    Interleaved
>
>
>
>Why is 19% still used?

   4.5MB of swap space in-use is not a significant amount. The system daemons
as well as a few user processes have been paged out. That's all; it's quite
normal and expected.

-DG